PharmaServ Express provides medical cold-chain and logistics needs for the government’s national vaccination program

Due to the worldwide pandemic, the country has experienced an enormous logistics gap that heavily affected the supply chain across industries. Supply of food and other basic goods in various areas was affected by lack of transportation, especially during lockdowns. 

Thankfully, the country’s vaccination drive has been spared from such problems due to the expertise and vast experience of PharmaServ Express in providing medical cold-chain and logistics needs for the government’s national vaccination program. Proving that the government made the right choice in selecting its cold-chain and logistics partner, PharmaServ Express effective delivered the needed vaccines to various local government units (LGUs) in the country since the start of the vaccination program early this year. 

“This is mainly due to the company’s competence and expertise in handling these life-saving vaccines,” said Andrian Perez, president of PharmaServ Express, Inc. “Providing logistics is one thing but delivering world-class service to our fellowmen is another thing. Our company takes pride in living up to its commitment to excellent service,” he added. Living up to its status as the No. 1 Filipino-owned cold-chain and logistics firm in the country, PharmaServ Express more than effectively managed the integrity of vaccines entrusted to them, keeping them safe from arrival until its distribution to various parts of the country. 

Since the start of the vaccination rollout, the cold-chain firm has recorded no wastage, thanks to its meticulous and safe handling of vaccines, from storage, packing and distribution to local government units (LGUs). PharmaServ Express is the only company in the country that uses a biothermal case system that maintains the required temperature of the vaccines while being transported to various areas of the country.

It also has more than sufficient manpower and ground assets to transport the vaccines throughout the Philippines via land, sea and air and deliver them in a timely manner. “To deliver world-class service to our fellow countrymen was our objective for the year and we will strengthen and carry out this practice until the end of the pandemic,” said Perez. 

With the government planning to increase its COVID-19 immunity vaccination target from 70 percent to 100 percent due to emerging variants, PharmaServ Express is more than ready for the challenge. “We still have a long way to go, but PharmaServ Express is more than ready to face this challenge. We are fully equipped and fully capable,” Perez said.

 

National Cold Chain Management Partner Gears up for ‘Bayanihan Bakunahan’

The government’s national cold-chain and logistics partner is now gearing up for the scheduled three-day nationwide vaccination program dubbed as “Bayanihan Bakunahan” from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1.

PharmaServ Express assured that the cold-chain facility in Marikina City has enough capability to package and distribute the various COVID-19 vaccine brands that require different temperatures at any given time. In addition, the Filipino-owned cold-chain facility uses biothermal case system in packaging the vaccines for safe delivery to various local government units (LGUs). 

PharmaServ Express also has more than sufficient manpower and ground assets to transport the vaccines throughout the Philippines via land, sea and air. PharmaServ has a vast experience in transporting vaccines to far-flung areas of the country. In 2019, it helped the Department of Health (DOH) and UNICEF’s campaign to stop the measles and polio outbreaks that both occurred in 2019 in various parts of the country. Due to its timely and efficient delivery of vaccines even to far-flung areas of the Philippines, PharmaServ Express helped in ending the polio outbreak this year. 

President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday (Nov. 24) issued Presidential Proclamation No. 1253, declared Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 as "Bayanihan, Bakunahan National COVID-19 Vaccination Days”. The Chief Executive has directed all government agencies and instrumentalities to extend all possible support to the DOH and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), and the National Task Force Against COVID-19 for the successful implementation of Proclamation No. 1253. "Employees and workers of the government and the private sector, who will be vaccinated during the aforesaid period, shall not be considered absent from their work, provided that they present proof of vaccination to their respective employers," President Duterte said. 

The three-day vaccination program aims to inoculate 15 million individuals across 16 regions outside Metro Manila to boost the country’s inoculation rate. This would help the government achieve its goal of inoculating at least 54 million Filipinos before end-December. So far, 34,199,500 individuals have been fully vaccinated against the virus. The country has enough supply for the three-day vaccination drive as it has already received 135,161,900 doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Aside from providing the cold-chain facility for the COVID-19 vaccines, the Filipino-owned cold-chain firm also oversees the packaging and distribution of doses to various local government units all over the country. 

Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez recently praised PharmaServ Express’ cold-chain facility as “world class” due to its ability to store various brands of COVID-19 vaccines with different temperature requirements. Israeli medical experts who recently visited the country to help in managing the pandemic also described PharmaServ’s cold-chain facility as “excellent” and praised the cold-chain company’s packaging and distribution method that ensures the safety and efficacy of vaccines.