BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN) – Personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers are in high demand, but thanks to the kindness of the owners of a Tonawanda logistics business, some hospitals in the area will have upwards of ten days worth of the highly-sought N95 masks.
The owner of the company also did not want to share the name of his company.
A Kaleida Health spokesman said their staff goes through approximately 3,000 masks per day. The ten-days-worth of supplies was estimated based on the roughly 30,000 masks delivered to the two locations.
The owner said that the masks were an old shipment that was considered “abandoned” by the company.
Still, the donation wasn’t an easy choice for the logistics company. With states in a bidding competition with one another for health care supplies, the company could have made thousands of dollars, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of dollars because of the demand.
“We’ve got 27 employees of our own that we need to keep paid and keep their health insurance paid and keep things going for the next month or two,” the owner said. “We initially thought we might have a way to solve that problem but in the end, the right thing to do was to get them out there. We’ll take care of our people the best way we can. We don’t need this to care of them.”