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Welcome back. national guard troops are deploying this week across the state of massachusetts to help ease the strain on hospitals there. 300 national guard members are being sent to hospitals across massachusetts to fill nonmedical support roles. governor charlie baker has ordered hospitals to postpone or cancel all nonessential elective procedures that might lead to overnight stays. diana richardson, chief medical officer in boston where six national guard troops just arrived this morning. thanks for being with me. what will they be doing? reporter: good morning, poppy. thanks for having me. the troops are helping in nonclinical roles. we have four that will be deployed to the emergency room helping with patient movement, patient transport, and two that will actually be helping our public safety department managing the patients coming in
MembersHospitalsTroopsStrainNational-guardThe-state-of-massachusetts300GovernorProceduresDiana-richardsonSupport-rolesStaysMedical training so they are really focused on trying to, you know, within an emergency setting or urgent care setting triage patients, determining who is going to need resources, a hospital bed, who is not. trying to take some of that pressure off. you can see some of the states where this is going where military assistance is going. new jersey is one of those places. here s how the ceo of one of the hospitals in new jersey described the help this might provide. we are getting 23 people in uniform for 30 days. we don t know exactly what clinical skills or nonclinical skills by the way which are also very important food service, radiology techs, environmental services. we need everything right now because we are hurting in almost every area in the hospital. patient transport, radiology. you name it. show you quickly what s happening in new jersey where you just heard that doctor. you know, we know these trends in the country overall, the white line is the united states, still goi
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