On their best day Kanakanak Hospital would be over whelmed if you showed up with a broken leg.
Nobody goes there, injuries and the like equal a flight to either Anchorage or Seattle.
Many of the processors have their own clinics staffed with registered nurses and stocked with meds.
Most have housing that could be used for medical quarantines IF required with 200+ beds.
In short, the processors could easily be much better suited than local facilities to handle these needs IF required.
On the King Salmon/Naknek side of the bay all they have is a single small clinic. Sometimes they have a doctor some times they don't. The only decent piece of equipment they there have is a X-ray machine that networks so real doctors in Anchorage can read the X-rays more quickly and the processors bought that for them.
They don't need the
now dysfunctional RavnAir either, they charter jets from Seattle to fly their large groups in and then transport them to their facilities in their own buses.
Those communities are dependent on the processors, not the other way around.
They have til the first of June before they will need to start staffing up, lot's can change by then..
Bristol Bay Borough working with processors ahead of 2020 salmon fish season amid COVID-19 concerns.
