Mobile X-ray services to be provided to inmates at Bay County Jail

New medical technology soon will be available at the Bay County Jail. The nine-member Bay County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a one-year contract between the Bay County Sheriff’s Office and Maryland-based MobilexUSA, which will provide on-site X-ray, EKG and ultrasound services. Sheriff John E. Miller proposed the resolution Nov. 3 as a means of saving money now spent to take inmates to emergency rooms. “It’s going to be a saving measure for us,” Miller said. “We won’t have to pay to transport (inmates) to a hospital or an X-ray facility. We’ll save money for two transport officers, the money and the time.”

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