Dec 15, 2020
The Payne County Health Department should be receiving a new fifth wheel trailer by the end of December that will be used as a mobile unit for testing, vaccinations and exams. Provided
John Crone, a project manager for the Payne County Health Department, appeared before the Payne County Board of Commissioners at Mondayâs regular weekly meeting to ask if a County building could be used to store a new mobile health unit.
The fifth wheel trailer is being manufactured in Pennsylvania and is expected to arrive by the end of December.
Crone said the mobile unit could be used for COVID-19 testing and vaccination, as well as for health exams. The trailer holds a waiting area, lavatory, and an exam room. The 35-foot trailer will be pulled by a one-ton Dodge pickup. The commissioners did not identify an empty county building that would hold the trailer and pick-up.