The Commonwealth Ports Authority, in tandem with Commonwealth Healthcare Corp., has designated an \u201cisolation facility\u201d below Gate 2 of the Saipan International Airport for communicable diseases such as the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n
Conversations for identifying such an area sprang up between CPA and the hospital corporation amidst the Ebola virus outbreak, according to CPA executive director Maryann Lizama. The area would allow an enclosed space to be set up for a \u201cscreening process\u201d by CHC, she said at a board meeting this week. <\/p>\n
The area is in the airport\u2019s arrival corridor before US. Customs and Border Protection section, she said. <\/p>\n
She added that CHC requested for the facility not just for cases of Ebola but for other communicable diseases as well.<\/p>\n
CHC did not have funding for this, she said, but they have since worked with the CPA engineering office in what they need for a permanent two-part enclosure in the arrival corridor.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing that CPA is proactive with our traveling public, we want to make that [facility] available,\u201d she told the CPA board. The facility for now would come out of CPA\u2019s pocket, she said.<\/p>\n
The return for CPA, as discussed with CHCC, Lizama said, is that CPA\u2019s personnel would be accorded with priority for training and grant funding on CHCC\u2019s side for these diseases.<\/p>\n
A supplemental budget of $44,880 for the isolation facility was approved at the board meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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