Gov. Mike DeWine said today that he was sending 1,000 Ohio National Guard members to help the state’s help hospitals address their staffing challenges. DeWine said the guard members would be on duty starting Monday. Of the 1,000, 150 of them are trained medical professionals. The remainder will be doing other duties like “transport within the hospital, food and the environmental work that goes on in hospitals and is so very important every single day,” the governor said. The medical troops will be focused in the Akron, Canton, Cleveland and Wooster areas, at least initially. The rest will be scattered throughout the state. The assignment is for an indefinite period of time.
Ohio National Guard called out to help hospitals deal with Covid
