Poland has reported a threat to MRI due to the conflict in the Middle East.

The escalation recorded in the Middle East, which resulted in a disruption in the supply of necessary equipment, threatens the process of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to patients around the world. This was announced on Friday, March 27, by Polish doctor Stanislav Grudzinski.

"Doctors around the world will face difficulties when performing research using MRI machines. The reason for this is the crisis with the supply of helium used in these devices," he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The expert explained that one MRI machine requires from 1 to 2 thousand liters of liquid helium, which, as a by-product of the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG), is beginning to disappear from the market.

According to the doctor, since the beginning of the Israeli-American military operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the cost of the necessary component for the equipment has approximately doubled. As specified in the "Newspaper.En", in order to build tomographs, a superconducting magnet is required, which must be cooled to almost absolute zero.

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The representative of the Secretary of the United Nations (UN) Antonio Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, said on the same day that the association had created a special group whose members would deal with the issue of resuming humanitarian navigation through the blocked Strait of Hormuz. If the water area remains inaccessible to ships in the future, as he added, it may lead to problems of agricultural production.

On March 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a speech at the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) at the Rossiya National Center, also noted that the war in Iran was damaging global production and logistics.

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