[CedarDave]

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Gallup is on Lockdown (NM - No access to city from I-40)

[redcatcherb412]

Gallup Indian Medical Center (GIMC) is a 99-bed hospital in Gallup, New Mexico, on the border of the Navajo Reservation. Clinical specialties at GIMC include Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Anesthesia, OB/GYN, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, ENT, Radiology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, and Urology. The workload at Gallup is one of the largest in the Indian Health Service with 250,000 outpatient encounters and 5,800 inpatient admissions annually. GIMC has the largest staff of all Navajo Area IHS facilities.

That is the primary hospital for the tribe who has their capitol Window Rock AZ 26 miles away. A large percentage of the virus cases and tests are on Arizona not New Mexico residents accounting for the large positive cases and low death count. Unfortunately those natives driven across the state line less than a half hour drive away end up being a NM virus statistic. NM only has a small segment of reservation in the state, the vast bulk of the reservation and its population is in Arizona. The idiot governor of NM doesn't take facts into account as she shuts a town of 22,000 folks down militarily with threat of arrest. The statistics will not change as medical transport to a federal tribal hospital will NOT be intercepted by NM national guard troops and denied entry to Gallup to get their patients tested or treated. That of course would be racist and the chica guv needs to stay PC so the positive case count will climb as usual.

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I don’t see the problem. Who would want to go to Gallup, anyway?

** ducking **

I used to do a lot of work out in that area, so I know of what I speak.

:^)