Cardinal Health taking action to provide PPE for Canadian health care

As one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Canada, Cardinal has been working with urgency to support the increased demand for these critical products through the following actions: Proactively placing all PPE on allocation in January and lifted inventory in anticipation of increased demand, aggressively exploring and evaluating additional suppliers—domestically and internationally to gain access to pandemic products (without compromising quality standards), entering a new manufacturing agreement to bolster its supply of masks, and partnering with Health Canada on requirements for PPE licensing that may allow temporary access to new pandemic products from international manufacturers.

Cardinal received an e-mail late Saturday night before Easter from Public Service and Procurement Canada asking them to see if they could help secure testing swabs. By the end of the day on Sunday, they had found swabs that worked and we delivered them early the next week.

Additionally, Cardinal helped set up a pop-up hospital in Quebec in preparation for the pandemic and in partnership with the Quebec Ministry of Health, the company developed a process that would support their efforts to effectively allocate PPE items to the designated areas of need in the province ensuring health care workers and their patients were protected.