The initiative, dubbed Post4Health, aims to improve healthcare access through timely delivery of health supplies through specialised cold chain transportation. The value proposition of the service aims at enhancing cold logistics with newly integrated vehicles operating last-mile delivery of critical medicines and vaccines, ensuring they remain in optimal condition. Speaking at the launch, BotswanaPost CEO, Cornelius Ramatlhakwane, said posts globally were facing challenges in their traditional business models, calling for an urgent need to diversify their offerings and propositions to customers.
This, he said, ranged from climate change, and the need to improve services in sectors such as healthcare. “Posts are facing new challenges caused by climate change, higher global temperatures and the increase in demand for medicine, leading to an inadequate distribution of cold chain transportation resources,” he said. “Post4Health, therefore, provides important support to post offices to help them meet delivery challenges and ensure temperature-controlled logistics and the provision of services at very low temperatures.” Post4Health was created during the early stages of COVID-19 vaccine deployment and delivery when countries needed ultra-cold chain equipment.
