Polish Post transports personal protective equipment for medical facilities
Since the beginning of the epidemic, Poczta Polska has been taking intensive measures to support institutions fighting the spread of the coronavirus. As many as 83,000 packages containing personal protective equipment have already been delivered to medical facilities across the country.
Since the outbreak of the SARS-Cov-19 virus, Poczta Polska has been supporting the Ministry of Health in distributing protective equipment. The company performs a number of tasks, including warehousing, packaging, pallet transport, and parcel services.
The company delivers supplies to hospitals, including infectious disease hospitals, primary healthcare facilities, epidemiological stations, National Health Fund offices, and pharmacies. Orders for pharmacies are placed through the SOI portal launched by the Ministry of Health. Pharmacies using the portal can order disinfectants, gloves, and protective masks.
Recently, Poczta Polska's warehouse received 3 million protective gloves, which will be used to prepare and fulfill orders. Poczta Polska has once again accepted an order to assemble and ship over 5,000 packages to pharmacies across the country. Poczta Polska's warehouses have secured the appropriate number of individual items needed to fulfill the entire order. In total, it serves over 13,500 pharmacies nationwide.
To date, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, Poczta Polska has delivered over 83,000 parcels and nearly 1,000 palletized groupage shipments to various types of medical facilities.
As part of its full-truckload (FTL) transports, Poczta Polska completed nearly 300 such shipments, covering a total route length of over 65,000 km. Transports were carried out 24 hours a day. Cargo was collected directly from the airports in Wrocław and Warsaw, as well as from the Port of Gdańsk and the container rail terminal. The transported personal protective equipment was primarily delivered to the warehouses of the Material Reserves Agency, and from there to locations designated by the Ministry of Health, including warehouses of the voivodeships of all voivodeships.