{"id":47927,"date":"1999-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/94e60c15-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-09-02T00:00:00","slug":"94e60c28-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/94e60c28-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Midway seeks NMI help\nin handling &#039;boat people&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities from Midway island have been consulting the Commonwealth Health Center on how local staff handled the medical examination of illegal Chinese who were brought to Tinian  after a fishing vessel carrying some 140 Chinese arrived on that island.<\/p>\n<p>Public Health Secretary Joseph Kevin Villagomez said the medical team in Midway has been calling Saipan for technical advise since they were not prepared to handle a big number of illegal Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They want to know how to set up medical equipment or X-ray machine because they do not have biomed staff,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The original plan was to divert the boat to Tinian but it was later on sent to Midway in fear the dilapidated vessel would not reach its destination.<\/p>\n<p>Over 500 Chinese immigrants stayed in the tent city in the Northfield area of Tinian island until they were sent home two months ago.  Although CHC provided some supplies, a team of medical personnel from the US Public Health Service arrived on the island to handle the medical needs of the illegal Chinese immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, the U.S. Coast Guard again diverted a Chinese vessel to Tinian island carrying some 155 illegal Chinese. (LFR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities from Midway island have been consulting the Commonwealth Health Center on how local staff handled the medical examination of illegal Chinese who were brought to Tinian  after a fishing vessel carrying some 140 Chinese arrived on that island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}