POLISH POST ready for delivery of pulse oximeters

Poczta Polska developed with the Ministry of Health the procedure for serving pulse oximeters to people with Covid-19. This is an action that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski informed about a few days ago.  

The Ministry of Health has launched piloting of the remote monitoring system of parameters in patients with Covid-19 patients from high-risk groups, which will be indicated by primary care doctors. One of the monitored parameters with pulse oximeters will be the level of saturation, i.e. oxygen saturation. The first devices will go to Lesser Poland, and Polish Post will be responsible for their distribution.

- Polish Post, as the largest logistics and infrastructure company in the country, is undertaken by another task to support institutions fighting the epidemic. We have experience in efficient performance of even non -standard courier and logistics services, so far we have been logisticsing the protection measures of protection for hospitals, pharmacies, schools, we support the construction of temporary hospitals. Pulse oximeter to patients is another logistics task that we have undertaken in recent months. We are ready to take part in the pilot, coordinated by the Ministry of Health - says Andrzej Bodziony, vice president of Poczta Polska.

The primary care physician after receiving information that the patient has been diagnosed with Covid-19 will qualify him to be covered with telemonitoring program. Then the patient will receive login details in the system, and information that a person needs telemonitoring equipment will be automatically transferred from the Ministry of Health System for implementation by Poczta Polska.

Pulsoximeters will be delivered by a courier or postman postman in D+1 standard, i.e. the next day after receiving the patient's address from the Ministry of Health System. A person waiting for a pulse oximeter will receive text messages with information about sending a parcel and with a PIN code. The device will go to the recipient in accordance with the current guidelines for secure delivery of shipments based on the given PIN code. The set will also include a return envelope. Patients who will end their treatment process and be recognized as heaters, after reporting in the ICT system, will send the device to send back by post. It will be picked up in a special cassette, and then disinfected and sent to another person indicated by the primary care doctor.

- Preparation for the new task was to develop the process in accordance with the needs of our client and while maintaining applicable safety standards. It is a service to be tailor -made combining traditional logistics, courier and packaging services. Thanks to the staff of experienced logistics and experts in the field of process management, we have developed detailed solutions in a very short time. We are aware of how much responsibility rests with postal workers when performing the service of supplying and receiving pulse oximeters - adds Andrzej Bodziony. 

Postmen and employees of service services are equipped with masks, disinfection fluids and protective gloves. Pulse oximeters will take place in accordance with the standards developed by Poczta Polska for the needs of delivering parcels to quarantine addresses.

From the beginning of the epidemic in Poland, the post office has been performing logistics services to institutions fighting coronavirus, providing the necessary protection measures and equipment for hospitals and pharmacies.

In total, postalists transported nearly 40,000 palette with personal protection measures and with all kinds of medical equipment to the Material Reserve Agency as well as later, from ARM syntheses to warehouses of voivods and hospitals and other medical institutions.

We also completed the equipment of equipment to a temporary hospital in Warsaw. We are currently delivering equipment to a temporary hospital in Katowice. Subsequent transports for the other 16 temporary hospitals are in preparation.