Bangkok--21 Mar--Diethelm
In response to growing demands of Thailand’s healthcare industry Bangkok, — DKSH Healthcare or better known as Diethelm, a leading provider of logistics and supply chain solutions for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, announced the inauguration of newly relocated and upgraded Depot in Chiang Mai. The new Depot is aimed to improve order to deliver cycle times and help hospitals, clinics, and drugstores in the upper North of Thailand receive the right products at the right time. The Chiang Mai Depot, which also combines cross-docking practice, is an operating base for streamlining the flow between Diethelm’s Distribution Center in Bangkok and customer locations in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Maehongsorn, Lamphun, Lamphang, and Phayao.
It also provides an urgent delivery as well as cold-chain delivery of certain pharmaceutical products. Vice President of DKSH Healthcare Business Unit, Diethelm & Co Ltd, Mr Charles Toomey unveiled the objective of the facility expansion: “Our job is to help pharmaceutical manufacturers reach their customers through our vast distribution network in both Medical and Over-the-Counter channels countrywide. In order to keep pace with the growing healthcare market, Diethelm needs to ensure that the company is well positioned to support all customers’ demands with our recognized outstanding levels of service reliability.” The new Diethelm Depot is easily accessible via six lanes of Chiang Mai — Lampang Road. This strategic move puts Diethelm Depot within proximity of major hospitals based in downtown area, namely Lanna Hospital, Maharaj Hospital, Nakorn Ping Hospital, Chiang Mai Ram 1 Hospital, Chiang Mai Neurological Hospital, and so forth. Chief Pharmacist, Head of Pharmacy Department, Chiang Mai University Hospital, Ms Linda Luang-Arpa, said
“It is our pleasure to have Diethelm literally at our doorstep. In healthcare industry, speed and reliability are the most crucial factors. Imagine that you are lying on a gurney and about to enter the operating room and one orderly says that the hospital just ran out of facilities. This should not be the case when people’s health is involved.” The Depot in Chiang Mai is the latest initiatives and as part of five Depots countrywide in Phitsanulok, Khon Kaen, Ubon Ratchathani, and Songkhla. Last year, Diethelm introduced air-conditioned vehicles making the company the first and only distributor of pharmaceutical products in Thailand that offers temperature controlled end-to-end transportation along the supply chain.
Notes to Editors: DKSH Healthcare provides services in distribution, sales marketing, and manufacturing to multi-national and local healthcare organizations through its Diethelm and OLIC companies. DKSH Healthcare is a business unit of Diethelm and Co Ltd, Thailand’s one of the best known and most respected names in Thai business and part of the DKSH Group, one of Asia’s most long established and largest service companies. Press Contact: Bongkod Paebunyong Healthcare Business Unit Diethelm & Co Ltd Tel: 02-220-9422 Fax: 02-220-9090 Email: [email protected]
Picture depicted DKSH Healthcare’s Depot cum Cross-Dock in Chiang Mai; an operating base for streamlining the flow between the company’s distribution center in Bangkok and hospitals, medical establishments, drugstores in the upper North of Thailand.
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