CONWAY — National Guard members are helping to ease the burden on overworked staff at Memorial Hospital in North Conway.
Four members of the New Hampshire Air National Guard have been placed at Memorial under Gov. Chris Sununu’s Dec. 8 executive order, which called up 70 Guard members to help at hospitals around the state as COVID and non-COVID patients filled hospital beds across New England.
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