The Rwandan Government has started drone operations to delivery emergency supplies to remote areas
East African nation has taken a very bold step to save lives of their citizens and started emergency supply deliveries with the help of drones. While on the other hand, American giant companies like Google, Amazon and couple of others are working on the cargo delivery and door to door parcel services with the help of drones.
Rwanda is one of the African nations where the companies like Zipline and UPS are working on different causes and helping the nation. The government has announced that they have started the operations through drones to deliver blood and there will be more than 150 deliveries per day to the different blood transfusion centres in the western part of the country. These drones will deliver emergency supplies to the remote areas and these instant deliveries will help in saving precious lives.
What are these drones?
The American company Zipline is a robotics manufacturing company and they are taking their 15 drones to help in delivering the emergency services to the remote areas. These drones are called as the Zips and they are especially designed to use in the emergency operations in the African countries. It has been designed to safely deliver the vaccines during the lengthy rainy seasons in Rwanda.
Partnership on delivering the emergency supplies
The drone delivery service will initially focus on the delivery of blood in the western Rwandan areas but Zipline has confirmed that the UPS and Vaccine alliance Gavi will join them in 2017 and then they will deliver all kind of medicines to all across the Rwanda.
Rwandan government has plans to expand the drone operations in the eastern half of the country too but they will expand the Zipline drone delivery operations in early 2017. These operations will cover more than 11 million people in the country and they will be in the instant delivery reach of the centre from where the lifesaving drugs have been distributed to the entire country. It is truly amazing that a zip can travel more than 150 kms with a payload of around 1.5 kg.
Zipline is not working under any non-governmental organisation, it has actually has a commercial agreement with the Rwandan Government. The UPS foundation has donated more than 1.1 million US dollars to the foundation. The Foundation is expecting to save more than thousands of lives with the help of this process in the next three years.
What Zipline believes of Drone deliveries?
The CEO of the Zipline organisation stated that the incapability to transport lifesaving drugs causes millions of avoidable life losses every year across the globe. Zipline is working to solve this problem for ever with the help of its delivery system.
This instant delivery system helps Zipline to deliver medicines and emergency services to any remote area within 150 kilometres. It is a system that offers delivery on demand anywhere around the country. Rwanda has opted for this solution to save the lives of their people in the western part of the country.
