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Healthcare services and Latent heat and cold storage

Healthcare services depends on latent heat and cold storage.

Healthcare services (industry) and Latent heat and cold storage (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Latent heat and cold storage → Healthcare services

3 of the enterprise types in Healthcare services depend on latent heat and cold storage; for the most dependent, it rates 3 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 3 enterprise types depend on it
  • 3 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Pharmaceutical and consumables distributors: Cold rooms for vaccines and biologics (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Diagnostic laboratories and imaging centres: Cold storage of samples and reagents (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Retail and online pharmacies: Refrigeration for cold-chain drugs (criticality 2 of 5)

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