This is India’s first state to launch drone trials for delivering vaccines
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Hyderabad | Telangana has become the first state in the country to launch a trial run for delivering vaccines by drones to healthcare centres in remote areas.
The two-day trial run of drones under the state government’s ‘Medicine from the Sky’ project began on Thursday in Vikarabad town. The ‘Medicine from the Sky’ is an initiative of the Telangana government, spearheaded by the Emerging Technologies Wing of the ITE&C Department, in partnership with World Economic Forum, NITI Aayog, and HealthNet Global (Apollo Hospitals).
Vikarabad District Collector K. Nikhila formally inaugurated the trial run in the parade ground.
Boxes weighing 2-3 kgs took off from the Vikarabad district hospital for primary healthcare centres 500 metres away, flying to an altitude of up to 400 feet.
“This is the first time in India that trial run is being conducted to use drone technology to deliver vaccines or medicines to remote areas,” she said.
The three-phase trial will see six flights a day, with each drone carrying 175 vaccines in temperature-controlled boxes.
IANS
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