内容摘要："Failure is not an option in getting this done," said Republican Jason Smith of Missouri.

"Failure is not an option in getting this done," said Republican Jason Smith of Missouri.

Radiographer Kathy Thomas has worked there since it opened and has witnessed "significant changes" unfold in modern medicine and technology.Scans have now progressed from black-and-white film to high-resolution 3D digital images, enabling staff to spot small abnormalities and cancerous tumours.

The department has seven modern MRI and CT scanners as well as X-ray and ultrasound facilities and a PET-CT scanner, used in the detection and diagnosis of cancer and dementia.But even three decades ago, film negatives were painstakingly analysed by holding them up against light boxes."It feels like an awfully long time ago, and things have changed dramatically," said Ms Thomas.

"X-ray films were much more difficult to handle and had to be processed, which sometimes didn't work. Someone's chest X-ray might be lost at the bottom of a tank."Those things don't happen now. Technology has made a huge difference, and things are much easier," she explained.

Sarah Bond, operational lead radiographer, says the department sees more than a 1,000 patients a day, operating seven days a week.

"It has grown massively, tripling in services and staff size over the 30 years I've been here," she said.The ECB refused but called on the ICC to act, with chief executive Richard Gould writing to the global governing body to take action after what he called "gender apartheid".

He also called for Afghanistan's funding to be withheld until women's cricket is reinstated and support given to Afghan women's players.Amiri said she and her team-mates are "proud" of the Afghanistan's men's side. All they want is to be treated on the same terms.

"The ICC celebrates equality, but I don't know what equality they're celebrating," Amiri said. "Afghanistan doesn't have a women's team and they are still giving the men's team the chance to play and funds."I am so angry. The ICC has never done anything for us. We just want to have a team to give hope to the millions of women in Afghanistan."