US donates additional equipment towards COVID fight in The Bahamas – EyeWitness News

NASSAU, BAHAMAS The US Northern Command (NORTHCOM) recently donated six custom-made internal partitions for mobile shelters being used to screen COVID-19 patients, said the US Embassy in Nassau in a statement released yesterday.

According to the embassy, the equipment is valued at approximately $20,000 and will allow the Ministry of Health (MOH) to better isolate patients and prevent the spread of the virus, in addition to giving health officials the flexibility to meet current and future needs.

US Embassy Senior Defense Official Commander Kevin Self delivered the donation to Commander Sonia Miller of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and Captain Stephen Russell, director of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) at the South Beach Clinic on New Providence.

In September of 2020, the US Embassy donated ten mobile shelters to NEMA to aid in disaster relief, and the Ministry of Health expressed interest in using some of the shelters in the fight against COVID-19, the statement read.

Within weeks, the MOH had begun using two of the shelters at the South Beach Clinic to screen patients and conduct testing. However, Minister of Health Renward Wells asked whether it would be possible to create partitions inside the shelters that could help more effectively isolate patients and prevent infection.

Exemplifying the ongoing partnership between the United States and The Bahamas, Self took Wells request to NORTHCOM, who then worked with Regulus Global (the company that originally manufactured the shelters) to create custom-made partitions for the shelters. When installed, the partitions create three smaller rooms within the larger shelter, keeping patients isolated from one another and preventing the spread of infection.

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