Nuclear medicine industry affected by Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a drop of over 50% in services rendered in the nuclear medicine industry which has also led to unemployment and facilities closing down, says South African Society of Nuclear Medicine (SASNM) immediate past president Dr Moshe Modiselle. Current SASNM president Dr Stuart More further explains that the pandemic caused patients to develop new diseases that had to be treated and studied, some of which required nuclear medicine techniques to aid in the diagnosis of these entities.