Interior of mobile medical unit complete with `patient` during visit  to Prince George last  summer – photo 250News archive

Prince George, B.C.- The Mobile Medical Unit will be rolling into Prince George tomorrow morning for a  test run.

The unit, is heading back to its home base in Delta,  from  a four month deployment in Kitimat where  it had been  used  as a support service while the Kitimat hospital was undergoing renovations.

Tomorrow,  this 12 bed  mini hospital will be  setting up in the parking lot of the  Emergency department at the University  Hospital of Northern B.C. as a test run for the  Canada Winter Games.  The  test is to see  that all the support and  space requirements needed by the MMU can be met  before it arrives  for the Games.

The $5 million dollar facility has all the equipment necessary to provide everything from x-rays to ultra-sounds, surgery to ICU .

It arrives in two  trailers, one to carry all of the equipment and supplies, the other to be “the mini hospital”. There is also a “triage tent” where patients can be assessed for order of priority in treatment.

 The test set up could mean some parking  issues  around the  emergency department of the UHNBC tomorrow morning,  but  Northern Health spokesman, Jonathon Dyck says  access to the Emergency Department will not be impacted,  ambulances will still be able to  arrive and leave.

The set up is to start  first thing in the morning.