SIH received a donation of face mask and hand sanitizer Thursday.
Representatives from Tuskegee Next and The Will Group flew in to Southern Illinois Airport to deliver the first shipment of 10,000 N95 face masks to SIH.
SIH agreed to distribute half of those masks to other healthcare organizations in the region through an application process.
Vice President and Chief development Officer for SIH Woody Thorne says this kind of donation couldn’t come at a better time.
“There is a shortage of mask, they’re not coming in as rapidly as we might be able to order them and so that’s why a gift like this is really, really important to a healthcare organization like ours.”
SIH will start to distribute the mask the first week of August.
