First medical delivery by drone slated for Tuesday at New Tafo Hospital

Ghana will witnessed the first delivery of medicine via drone on Tuesday, April 23 at the New Tafo Hospital in the Eastern Region.

The event will see the delivery of vaccines for patients at the hospital.

This forms part of plans to commission a state-of-the-art Zipline facility on Wednesday, April 24.

The commissioning will be done by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who will also lead a delegation to tour the facility.

Zipline’s drone delivery service is dedicated to expanding healthcare access and saving lives.

Health workers place orders by text message and receive their deliveries in 30 minutes on average.

Zipline’s drones both take off and land from its distribution centers, requiring no additional infrastructure at the clinics it serves.

Deliveries are made from the sky, with the drone descending to a safe height above the ground and air-dropping medicine by parachute to a designated spot at the health centers it serves.

Because the company’s drones criss-cross commercial airspace daily over both remote and populated areas on their way to deliver critical and lifesaving medicine to people in need, the safety and reliability of Zipline’s service is a top priority.