Urgent Delivery: Assisting a Kidney Transplant Patient in Their Time of Need

September 2, 2022

In late August 2022, a Power Link courier customer had an urgent problem to solve. A kidney transplant patient in Labrador City, Labrador needed dialysis medication. Unfortunately, due to inventory shortages, the medication was not available locally. In fact, it was only available in Mississauga, and it wouldn’t even be available in Mississauga for several more days.


The customer called Power Link to see if we could help with this 1,916 kilometre delivery. Of course we could! We quickly got one of our drivers lined up and ready to go. Within an hour of the medicine being available, our driver picked it up in Mississauga, and headed to Labrador City.


In the evening of the very next day, the medicine arrived at the Labrador West Health Centre in Labrador City, ready to be administered to the patient.


Our customer was very happy, as was the patient & their family. We were thrilled to be to be of service, helping a vulnerable patient in their time of need.


Do you have an emergency shipment that you need help with? Whether it needs to go a short distance, or across the province, or even across the country & beyond, Power Link is here to help. Just give us a call or send us an email – it would be our privilege to serve you.

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