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- [Jackson] Medical Logistics
Airmen with the Hawaii Air

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National Guard Medical Detachment
One, have been assigned

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to the Hawaii Healthcare
Emergency Management Coalition

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to assist in the management
of inventory of key medical

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supplies for the response
to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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- The help that we're
providing are mainly logistical

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support with regards to
inventorying any type of equipment

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that's coming in and actual
equipment that's going out.

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Also for administration
regarding paperwork,

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that's what we're here to help them.

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Anything that deals with
the logistical system.

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For the inventory
process, whatever comes in

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they actually give us a list
of what needs to be inventoried

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and we make sure that we count it,

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that it's accurate amount
of supply that comes in.

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If it's any discrepancy,
we actually let them know,

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saying if we're missing something

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or if we have extra left in here.

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- [Jackson] The Airmen are
assisting in the daily operations

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of a non-profit organization
that is greatly increased

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due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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- What we do, is we oversee or
we manage response operations

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for major emergencies and disasters

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for the healthcare sector statewide.

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We have a coalition that
involves all the hospitals,

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long-term care, home health
hospice, dialysis centers,

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also community health centers,

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laboratories, kinda the whole gamut

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around healthcare statewide.

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It is that support element,
is huge for what we do.

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So, you know, it's a big deal
for us to be able to receive

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and have this partnership so
that we can more expeditiously

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push things out, as well
as kind of organize it

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more effectively.

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And they've also helped
us repair one of our older

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isopods which we utilize to

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isolate to negative pressure
individual patients.

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We have three of them and one
was kinda put off to the side

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that we're gonna repair and
they've been phenomenal,

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instrumental in fixing that
and I believe a biomedical team

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is coming tomorrow to help
with our new negative pressure

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machines; help us get those up.

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So there's a lot of different things

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other than just inventory that the Guard

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has been instrumental in helping us with.

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- [Jackson] This is Tech
Sergeant Andrew Lee Jackson,

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reporting from Hawaii National Guard.