Wrangell Sentinel -

The Wrangell Medical Center will be purchasing a new mammography machine for the hospital that will be paid for entirely through grants.

The machine, which takes x-rays of breast tissue and is used to screen for breast cancer, will cost $99,999, and WMC has received $100,000-worth of grants to buy it.

The grants came from a number of organizations including Alaska Run for Women, American Seafoods, First Bank and Fred Meyers. The largest grant WMC received to purchase the mammography machine came from the Denali Commission in the amount of $43,000.

At last week’s meeting, the WMC Board...