New Hampshire Hospital has some much-needed masks -- thanks to a donation. Gov. Chris Sununu on Friday helped deliver 3,500 KN95 masks for staff at the hospital in Concord. The masks were donated by Peterborough company SoClean. New Hampshire Hospital said the donation is especially important because it was running low on personal protective equipment and had to conserve it.This was just critically important for our staff and our patients to do everything we can to reduce and mitigate risk for transmission of COVID, said New Hampshire Hospital CEO Heather Moquin.SoClean is giving 250,000 masks to more than 200 health care facilities across the state.Most of the facilities that are reaching out are smaller. It's nursing homes. It's elderly rehab facilities, said Eric Burbank, SoCleans vice president of operations.SoClean worked with private donors to get the money needed to make it happen. Through its program Masks for New Hampshire, 50 SoClean employees will make deliveries over the next week.Something like this has never happened before, but it's fabulous to see how everybody's coming together, said John Gargasz, the coordinator of Masks for New Hampshire.250,000 masks is, I think, barely scratching the surface of what New Hampshire needs, Burbank said. This is about the health care workers, and I think we all feel a little helpless not knowing what we can do to help them. They're the real heroes in this. Not us, he added.

New Hampshire Hospital has some much-needed masks -- thanks to a donation.

Gov. Chris Sununu on Friday helped deliver 3,500 KN95 masks for staff at the hospital in Concord. The masks were donated by Peterborough company SoClean.

New Hampshire Hospital said the donation is especially important because it was running low on personal protective equipment and had to conserve it.

This was just critically important for our staff and our patients to do everything we can to reduce and mitigate risk for transmission of COVID, said New Hampshire Hospital CEO Heather Moquin.

SoClean is giving 250,000 masks to more than 200 health care facilities across the state.

Most of the facilities that are reaching out are smaller. It's nursing homes. It's elderly rehab facilities, said Eric Burbank, SoCleans vice president of operations.

SoClean worked with private donors to get the money needed to make it happen. Through its program Masks for New Hampshire, 50 SoClean employees will make deliveries over the next week.

Something like this has never happened before, but it's fabulous to see how everybody's coming together, said John Gargasz, the coordinator of Masks for New Hampshire.

250,000 masks is, I think, barely scratching the surface of what New Hampshire needs, Burbank said.

This is about the health care workers, and I think we all feel a little helpless not knowing what we can do to help them. They're the real heroes in this. Not us, he added.

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