Already 174 thousand Puls oximeters returned directly to Poczta Polska by the heaters
In February this year. Poczta Polska, in consultation with the Ministry of Health, provided an additional possibility of reimbursement of pulse oximeters - directly to the selected post office. For a month and a half, from the moment of the new formula, it has already benefited from over 174,000 people (i.e. 20% of all heaters returning pulse oximeters), and PP facilities record an increase in interest in this way of transferring monitoring devices. Until now, couriers of Poczta Polska have provided a total of nearly 330,000 pulse oximeters.
It is worth recalling that the pulsoximeter distribution implemented by the Polish Post Office takes place as part of the home medical care (home) program implemented by the Ministry of Health. The House program is a remote monitoring system for the parameters of people infected with Covid-19, whose health allows you to insulate at home. It allows you to quickly detect patients who should be directed to hospital treatment due to the deterioration of health. As part of the diagnostics, the level of saturation, i.e. the saturation of arterial blood with oxygen, is monitored. Patients incorporated into the system of transmitting and monitoring data of the DOM Contact Center, due to the service of the Polish Post, receive pulse oximeters.
From November 2020, pursuant to cooperation with the Ministry of Health, the post office carried out service and pulsoximetr returns only by courier. From February 2021, patients have the option of returning monitoring devices also directly to one of 4,600 facilities, offices and branches of PP (excluding postal agencies).
As the recent data indicate, the ardent still more willingly choose the reception of pulse oximeter by a courier, but from week to week the number of devices transferred directly to Poczta Polska's facilities is growing and currently already constitutes 20% of all returns.
- We have in mind the convenience of patients, which is why we have provided two possible forms of returning monitoring devices, i.e. courier and personal. From February this year. To this day, we record more and more interest in the return of pulse oximeters directly to our facilities - says Andrzej Bodziony, vice president of Poczta Polska. - The ardent, after the isolation, transmits the devices on their own by visiting our facilities. We are glad that they follow our recommendations and provide them with properly packed in a return envelope, which we delivered to them along with a pulse oximeter. The safety of reception, regardless of the patient chosen by the patient, is a key matter for us - adds Andrzej Bodziony.
Until now, as part of cooperation with the Ministry of Health, Poczta Polska has provided nearly 330,000 pulse oximeters.