The State government of Telangana recently launched ‘Medicine from the Sky’ initiative in partnership with World Economic Forum, Niti Aayog, and HealthNet Global.
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Under this project, Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone flights will be used for delivery of vaccines and drugs using the identified airspace of the Vikarabad district.
The objective of Medicine from the Sky is to generate insights that can drive future adoption strategies and policy interventions for inclusion of drones in healthcare supply chain.
The goal is to integrate drone deliveries with existing systems and enable urban grade infrastructure even for remote and rural areas.
The project will kick off on a trial mode at the Vikarabad Area Hospital. The program will last for 24 days where four batches would carry out sorties for six days each.
The drones would be carrying vaccine cold storage boxes equipped with temperature sensors and data loggers to record the performance.