medical charters
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two more medical charters are now scheduled for this month including one that will be used as a “test flight” bringing in up to 100 passengers, including medical personnel and government officials who will test local preparations when commercial flights between Honolulu...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA, — In a Dec. 17 memo to Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga and Lt. Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga, Medicaid Director Sandra King Young is calling on the COVID Vaccine Distribution Taskforce to prioritize referral patients going on the Jan. 8 medical charter.
She stated, “Pursuant...

![Acting Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale, who is also lieutenant governor and chairman of the COVID-19 Task Force address the reporters during Wednesday’s task force news conference. [photo: FS] Acting Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/lt_gov_talauega_img_6298.jpg?itok=c7PgmA_c)
![Medicaid Director Sandra King Young says, "It would be extremely prudent for our government to provide the COVID vaccine to our referral patients who will eventually return home — to protect them while receiving medical care in the US and to further protect our community when they return." [SN file photo] Medicaid Director Sandra King Young](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/sandra_king-young_7.jpg?itok=xqTRCKre)