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Hawaii hospitals may need federal help to handle a potential flood of patients

from Honolulu Civil Beat

Hawaii hospitals may need federal help to handle a potential flood of patients Honolulu Civil Beat Hospital administrators and state officials are scrambling to hire more personnel from the mainland and are making preparations to enlist more help from the federal government as more people are hospitalized for COVID-19 on Oahu and medical staff are increasingly overwhelmed. Gov. David Ige said that the National Guard has been activated and a team called Task Force Medical — national guardsmen and women with medical backgrounds — are working with all of the providers on the island. Ige, county mayors and health officials are monitoring staffing shortages in hospitals across the state on a daily basis, he said. READ MORE

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