We all know the important role healthcare professionals play in our lives. Between researchers expanding the boundaries of our knowledge to the doctors, nurses, and pharmacists ensuring sick people get healthy, everyone appreciates their work, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic.
What about the role that medical couriers play? That tends to get a little less celebrated, so let’s check out what R Courier does.
Healthcare in Far-Flung Places
Sometimes, emergency responders struggle to get to certain far-flung locations away from major medical centres. What happens to, say, a hiker who suffers an emergency on a mountain trail somewhere?
Medical couriers can help transport vital medicine, medical equipment, and even the patients themselves from point A to point B. The best hospital in the world can’t help a patient who is located too far away, and that’s where we come in.
Temperature Controlled and Safe
Delivering medicine isn’t like shipping other consumer goods, like clothing. Certain medications or vaccines need to be in temperature-controlled environments to remain effective. Otherwise, they may not work properly and could be void or even unsafe to consume.
R Courier also transports things like organs between hospitals or health centres, which also need to remain in temperature-controlled environments to remain safe and stable.
Reliable, Fast, and Secure
Everybody gets excited when they’re due to receive a package. However, medical patients can’t afford to wait, and they need to know when it’s arriving and where it is. That’s why R Courier’s technology in every vehicle tells drivers the most efficient routes, as the importance of efficient route planning can’t be overstated. It also lets patients know the approximate estimated time of arrival.
You should also be able to determine how quickly the shipment arrives with more precision than ordinary couriers provide. For example, leaders let you select various options, like regular (meaning packages are delivered before 5:00 pm that day), rush (package delivered within 3-4 hours), direct (package delivered within 1-1.5 hours), urgent (package delivered non-stop), and overnight (packaged delivered by the next day).
Granular control is key.
The best medical couriers also have technology that lets you replay the route every driver took, so it’s easy to determine that the parcel took the most direct route possible and encountered no delays. Signature capture technology ensures that the shipment is only handed off to the intended recipient.
Insured and Bonded
Finally, not all couriers are legally qualified to ship medical packages. A company must be fully bonded and insured.
Look for a medical courier that is fully licensed with the “Transportation of Dangerous Good (TDG) Radioactive 7,” which is required when shipping certain radioactive specimens and other hazards.
We can’t possibly thank doctors, nurses, and pharmacists enough for their hard work! However, medical couriers play a pivotal role in connecting people to healthcare centres and relaying medicine and supplies for oncology clinics and other centres quickly and safely. If you need medical equipment or medicine shipped, don’t hesitate to contact R Courier today.
