During the lockdown period, some hospitals and community health centers were closed, and some prescriptions for follow-up visits were transferred online, but “last mile” deliveries were not became a problem. The reporter learned from Yangpu District yesterday that in order to deliver medicines to patients in a timely manner, the market supervision bureau of the district selected 8 from the first batch of guaranteed pharmacies based on the geographical location of 12 streets in the district as “Internet hospital dispensing and distribution”. “Points”, to undertake the “last mile” distribution of medicines dispensed by residents of Yangpu District in more than 80 Internet hospitals in the city, and the district’s Commerce Commission will arrange 10 “medicine delivery” specialists to deliver the medicines to residential areas. As of press time, 8 guaranteed pharmacies that mainly correspond to “Internet hospitals” have completed a total of 2,535 delivery tasks. In addition, the number of emergency pharmacies in Yangpu District has increased from the first batch of 16 to 90, and the number of on-the-job pharmacists has increased to 193, trying their best to meet the online and offline dispensing needs of residents.
14 volunteer teams take over the delivery work
In reality, there are often three or four hundred Internet dispensing orders per street per day Pen. “Internet dispensing is usually an emergency life-saving medicine, and pharmacies are conducive to the storage and redistribution of medicines in terms of the professionalism of the personnel and the temperature and humidity of the environment.” Zhang Ling, the Pharmacy and Chemical Section of the Yangpu District Market Supervision Bureau, introduced that the Pharmacy and Chemical Section aimed at the aforementioned Professional pharmacists at 8 distribution points will urgently conduct online training, including connection with Shanghai Pharma and Sinopharm distribution departments, drug acceptance and subsequent delivery, etc. At the same time, the Yangpu District Market Supervision Bureau contacted the “WeDoctor” app that has applied for an Internet hospital license, and “WeDoctor” dispatched 14 volunteer teams to take over the delivery work and deliver medicines from relevant pharmaceutical groups to various insurance pharmacies. and then delivered to the patient.
“Drugs are special. Once there is the slightest mistake in delivery, it will bring very serious consequences. The delivered medicines will be checked by the pharmacy staff one by one to ensure that they are correct and handed over to the delivery staff.” Zhang Ling introduced In some pharmacies, it takes more than two hours to count the medicines delivered through the Internet. “But it is about saving lives, and the pharmacists are very serious.”
Sheng Saiping is the manager of a “dispensing point” pharmacy on Pingliang Road. According to her, the pharmacy has 300 to 500 orders per day. Once, she received a call from a leukemia patient for help. The patient said that the hemoglobin medicine prescribed by the Internet hospital had not been received, and she had been off the medicine for a day, and the situation was urgent. Sheng Saiping quickly stopped the work at hand, contacted the relevant pharmaceutical companies through the district market supervision bureau, and found that the drug was still in the front-end logistics link. Through the relay layer by layer in each link, the medicine was finally delivered to the patient at the fastest speed. “Online” 90 guaranteed supply pharmacies, covering urgent needs online and offline
“The elderly at home are seriously ill, and the doctor told them that the medicine should not be interrupted for a day, and the community was closed. Please help me find this drug.” Not long ago, the District Market Supervision Bureau received such an emergency call. The staff began to search for the medicine after mastering the specific drug information, and found this life-saving drug in a guaranteed pharmacy in the district. Under the professional guidance of the store’s pharmacist, the rider delivered the medicine in time, and the medicine was handed over to the patient.
Just yesterday, there were three more such emergency pharmacies in Yangpu District, bringing the total to 90. The reporter learned that since the first batch of 16 guaranteed supply pharmacies were proposed on April 1, up to now, Yangpu District guaranteed supply pharmacies have received a total of 217,354 online orders, and actually issued 186,659 orders, with a capacity of 85.88%. The main variety: Lianhua Qingwen granules, new crown kits, alcohol sprays, alcohol wipes, medical masks, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular drugs and other commonly used drugs.
During the lockdown period, these supply-guaranteed pharmacies met residents’ dispensing needs by means of “closed doors, small windows, and online business”. The Yangpu District Market Supervision Bureau communicates with the pharmacies in its jurisdiction every day. In accordance with the principle of opening one for a mature one, the number of guaranteed pharmacies is continuously expanded, and the direct contact information of the pharmacist and the landline of the store are provided for residents, equipped with double contact guarantees; at the same time, they are aware of the epidemic situation every day. Since the occurrence, we have guaranteed the consumption flow of pharmacies, changes in drug sales and transportation capacity, etc., and cooperated with the chain pharmacy headquarters to check the nucleic acid and antigen testing conditions of each pharmacy staff every day.
Author: Liu Liyuan
Editor: Fan Jing