Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said the medical drone service provided by Zipline International, the San Francisco-based UAV manufacturer and logistics service provider has delivered over 2,500 samples of suspected COVID to Accra and Kumasi.
According to him, four Medical drone centers are currently operating in Eastern, Northern, and Ashanti Region and it has taken over 79,800 deliveries since 2019 to Health Centers.
Ghana’s drone service, launched in April 2019 makes on-demand emergency deliveries of 148 different vaccines, blood products, and lifesaving medications to health facilities in the country, 24 hours a day.
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in 2019 launched Ghana’s largest drone delivery service at Omenako in the Eastern Region to improve healthcare delivery, especially in hard-to-reach areas.
The project, christened: “Fly to save a life,” is using drones to operate 24 hours a day, throughout the week, from four distribution centers with each center equipped with 30 drones to deliver essential medicines and blood products to 2,000 health facilities.
It is expected to serve 14 million people across the country, especially in remote areas, to deliver on-demand and emergency deliveries of 148 different vaccines and life-saving medications.
All the four centers would make up to 600 on-demand delivery flights a day, with each center having the capacity to fly 500 essential medical products per day.
The medical drone service was provided by Zipline International, the San Francisco-based UAV manufacturer and logistics service provider.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
