Two months after showing off the proposed Alternate Care Site at Kanoa Resort in Susupe, the facility is not fully complete yet. Warren Villagomez, who heads the Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force, now says that dealing with medical equipment is not an overnight process.<\/p>\n
The facility was originally set for completion on May 25, which was then moved to May 28. At that time, Villagomez said that critical medical equipment were still on the way. This time, he says the medical equipment are still being put through their paces.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to go through parameter checks\u2026and sometimes some equipment actually need to have pigments on them so there\u2019re mannequins that we\u2019re working with to assure that the limits on the machines are in place,\u201d said Villagomez.<\/p>\n
Additionally, he said that there are biomedical services\u2014which provides support for biomedical equipment that provides services for the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.\u2014at Kanoa Resort, as well as facilitating all the needed work that needs to be done.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not an overnight completion. So it\u2019s ongoing, it\u2019s really much very active as we speak and it will [continue to] be active,\u201d said Villagomez, even with patients that will be transferred over to the ACS.<\/p>\n
As for as the quarantine site at the former Mariana Resort & Spa in Marpi, Villagomez said that it is on its final stage of being retrofitted. \u201cWe are, I believe, in the final stage. …We have all the government partners on the\u2026services that are needed for Mariana Resort,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Villagomez added that there are contract services for managing the front end of the operation. The Mariana Resort & Spa should be in full implementation as a quarantine site starting today, Villagomez said last week at the news briefing last July 17.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Department of the Interior recently approved the CNMI to drawdown $2,518,897 in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act funds. This emergency relief funding was made available under the CARES Act through the Interior\u2019s Office of Insular Affairs to prepare, prevent, and respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n
Of that amount, $371,800 will be used to prepare the former Mariana Resort property to serve as a quarantine site for inbound passengers. Over 100 rooms in varying sizes will be made available for COVID-19-related activities and for patients should cases reach upsurge limits or if the virus should spread exponentially within the community.<\/p>\n
Villagomez stressed that it\u2019s important to know the difference between a quarantine site and the ACS, with the ACS being an actual medical care site that will treat patients, where they can bring in patients to provide care, while a quarantine site is where arriving passengers are quarantined upon arriving on Saipan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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