BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday he will activate up to 500 members of the National Guard to support understaffed hospitals across the state facing a surge of COVID-19 patients and to bolster non-emergency medical transportation needs.
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Up to 300 Guard members will begin training this week to provide nonclinical support at 55 acute care hospitals and 12 ambulance service providers, the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services said. They will be deployed Dec. 27.
The goal is to ensure that hospitals have sufficient capacity to care for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients.
The Guard members will provide support in five critical areas identified by hospitals and ambulance services: non-emergency transportion between health care facilities; observing patients at risk for harming themselves; security and helping to maintain a safe workplace; moving patients within hospitals, such as bringing them from their rooms to tests; and delivering meals to patients in their rooms.
In addition, the state Department of Public Health on Tuesday directed all hospitals effective Dec. 27 to postpone or cancel all nonessential elective procedures.
Further actions of the government to instill panic and hysteria among the people. They could easily add/revise the duties of their non-medical staff to accomplish most of these tasks and hire more people if they need to. Unbelievable.
So whats Bidens plan for over crowded hospitals? Did he not learn from delta to prepare?