Vice President of Ghana Launches the country’s first medical drone service

Vice President of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia recently launched the Zipline medical drone delivery network in Ghana. Zipline is an American health-tech drone delivery service company.

The Medical drone service was first launched in Rwanda three year ago. This profound new service is a collaboration between Ghana’s ministry of health and Zipline technologies. It also aims at improving improve healthcare delivery in the country.

This morning, I commissioned Ghana's first medical drone delivery centre at Omenako in the Eastern Region. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/N3dJhLasCb

— Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia (@MBawumia) April 24, 2019

Vice President Bawumia said, the Zipline medical drones delivery network will provide quick response to medical emergencies, most especially to the difficult areas in Ghana. This will be possible through the flying of unmanned drones that will supply 12 routine and emergency services in addition to 148 lifesaving medical products.

This is part of many innovations adopted by Government to improve access to health care to deprived and hard-to-reach communities and strategy to eradicate hardships in health delivery. 3/4 pic.twitter.com/I15DogttsE

— Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia (@MBawumia) April 24, 2019

The Zipline drones will serve up to 2,000 health facilities and 12 million people in Ghana. Meanwhile, Zipline have also partnered with the national healthcare supply in Ghana. This partnership will help prevent vaccine stock-outs to health facilities. The drones will also be used during national immunization campaigns.

Below is a video of the Zipline medical drone delivery first payload to the Tafo Government Hospital in Ghana.

Tafo becomes first hospital in Ghana to receive Zipline medical drone delivery pic.twitter.com/TSSGdmJnMc

— @DailyGhana (@dailyghananews) April 24, 2019

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