Postal services actively delivering medicines: Ravi Shankar Prasad

NEW DELHI: Union Communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has instructed Secretary (Posts), to ensure that delivery of medicines through Speed Post is given the highest priority during lockdown.

The entire postal network across the country has been galvanised so that no difficulties are faced for sending and receiving medicines inter-State and intra-State, the ministry said in a press statement on Monday.

The red mail vans of India Post services and Road Transport Networks are rendering yeoman Service in point to point delivery of essential medicines, Covid 19 testing kits, medical equipment including ventilators, according to the statement.


Mail arrangements are also being made with operating cargo flights and special parcel trains to ensure timely delivery.

Thousands of tones of medicines and medical equipment is being delivered in tie ups with Indian Drug Manufacturers Association, Directorate General of Health Services and online pharmaceutical companies, the government said.

"Postal officers and employees are working round the clock across the country to ensure timely delivery of medicines at doorsteps of hospitals and individual customers," it added.