Local firms have stepped up to help make masks for health care workers.
Local firms have stepped up to help make masks for health care workers.
The ongoing spread of COVID-19 has resulted in a shortage of personal protective equipment and local firms have stepped up to make masks to donate to health care workers, according to The Daily Journal.
Kankakee resident April Kegg of Bourbonnais is coordinating the group named Kankakee Mask Makers which started in late March as a Facebook page and it has now attracted over 150 members to help health care workers.
Kegg and her husband, Darryl, recently donated over 300 masks to the Riverside Medical Center. The polypropylene mask protectors are among the first batch to be supplied by the Kankakee Mask Makers and more are expected in the future.
The polypropylene masks can be sanitized and worn outside the N95 masks. As some health care workers are forced to wear the same mask throughout the day due to a shortage, the polypropylene masks aim to prolong the N95 masks' lifespan by 300%.
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