© Provided by WYFF 4 Greenville-Spartanburg PPE arrives in Greenville

More than one million surgical face masks arrived in Greenville Sunday morning.

The 1.5 million masks arrived about 11 a.m. at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport on a Boeing airplane.

The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) will go to healthcare workers at Prisma Health in South Carolina.

Gov. Henry McMaster, members of South Carolina’s Congressional Delegation and Prisma Health’s President and CEO greeted the Boeing Dreamlifter and spoke.

Discommon, the importer of record for the delivery, secured the PPE from trusted manufacturers in China and turned to Boeing and Atlas Air to facilitate their transport to Prisma Health, the largest healthcare system in South Carolina, according to Prisma officials.

This is the second COVID-19 related cargo transport mission on a Boeing-owned aircraft.

The following were also on hand for the delivery:

Senator Lindsey Graham (SC)

Senator Tim Scott (SC)

Representative Jeff Duncan (SC-03)

Representative William Timmons (SC-04)

Prisma Health president and CEO, Mark O'Halla

Discommon Founder, Neil Ferrier

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