Service 03

ColdChain.

Controlled handling and distribution of temperature sensitive pharmaceutical products requiring 2 °C to 8 °C conditions, from storage to the customer's door.

Controlled range

2°–8°C

Products requiring 2–8 °C are kept in calibrated deep freezers and monitored with digital calibrated devices.

Why it matters

Some medicines must stay between 2 °C and 8 °C at every hand-off.

White box-body supply truck with red cross livery reading “We deliver life saving drugs”

Temperature sensitive products leave the protection of controlled storage several times before they reach a customer: when they are picked, packed, loaded and delivered. Each of those moments is a point where conditions must be maintained.

Our cold chain procedures are designed around those hand-offs. Calibrated deep freezers, digital calibrated monitoring, temperature-maintained vehicles, ice-box delivery and a clear priority rule for delivery staff work together to keep 2–8 °C products in their required range.

The cold chain journey

Six stages, one controlled range.

  1. Stage 01

    Temperature controlled storage

    Products requiring 2–8 °C are maintained in calibrated deep freezers.

  2. Stage 02

    Calibrated monitoring

    Temperature is monitored through digital calibrated devices.

  3. Stage 03

    Controlled product handling

    Products are packed into ice boxes for delivery.

  4. Stage 04

    Temperature-maintained dispatch

    Orders are loaded into supply vehicles with properly maintained temperature.

  5. Stage 05

    Cold chain transportation

    Ice boxes travel in temperature-maintained vehicles to each town.

  6. Stage 06

    Priority delivery

    On reaching a town, 2–8 °C products are delivered first.

The chart is an illustration of the controlled 2–8 °C range across each stage, not recorded temperature data.

Cold chain procedures

What we do to protect the range.

Calibrated deep freezers

2–8 °C products are maintained in calibrated deep freezers.

Digital calibrated monitoring

Temperature monitoring through digital calibrated devices.

Temperature-maintained vehicles

Properly maintained temperature in supply vehicles.

Ice-box delivery

2–8 °C products are delivered in ice boxes.

Priority delivery

The 2–8 °C rule on every route.

Delivery staff are instructed that when they reach a town, 2–8 °C products must be delivered first, before anything else on the route.

  1. Arrive in townSupply vehicle reaches the next town on its route.
  2. Deliver 2–8 °C products firstIce-box products are handed over before any other stock.
  3. Continue the routeRemaining deliveries follow once cold chain items are delivered.
Red and white insulated supply truck with the message “We deliver life saving drugs”
Supply vehicle with maintained temperature

Related services

Completing the distribution chain.

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