Name: How a High-Tech Drone Fleet Is Changing Medicine in Rwanda
Uploaded: 2020-06-08T03:26:24.000Z
Duration: 5 min
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In most places in the world, when people think about going to hospitals or getting medical

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supplies there, it is not a big problem, you can just get in a car.

With using a drone, you don't have to worry about whether the roads are slippery today,

I am the general manager for Zipline Rwanda. Zipline is a drone delivery service.

We deliver blood, medical products, vaccines to hospitals in remote areas in Rwanda and

One of the hospitals that we serve just requested us to send two units of red blood cells.

So, Nicole over here is going to start packing it and make sure that units to get to the

hospitals, as soon as possible. The hospitals do not know when someone is going to come

So, the pharmacist picks up the phone and calls Zipline.

So within five minutes the drone will be in the air going into the hospital.

So we aim to make it as fast as possible.

Some of the products that Zipline delivers are needed in critical situations like life

When the blood dropped here, then this lady will just pick it and take it to the laboratory.

They have reduced the cost that we are incurring in going to Kigali to pick up the blood.

If there is a woman at the hospital, they were going to deliver their baby, but then

something unexpected happened and they started to bleed, you don't have the luxury to do

four hours the other way to be able to treat that patient.

We asked the hospitals, like, does it take

to get supplies and they were like okay six hours sometimes a day when it has been raining.

And we were like okay yes we are going to beat that.

When Zipline started developing this technology, Rwanda was one of the first countries that

were interested, many other countries were interested, but Rwanda was willing to take the

Rwanda is embracing innovation in technology.

It's one of the competitive advantages over other places where there are many natural

I have a drone coming brought from a hospital that

So, the structure has motors, and they communicate with our server.

And when the drone gets within the vicinity of the distribution center.

There is a small hook on the tail of the drone that the recovery system is gonna catch.

The recovery system communicates with great precision with the drone to be able to catch

It's small continuous improvements that we do that make a big difference.

The doors on the drones are kept here standby. Even the doors are open so you don't

want to even waste, those fractions of seconds Zipline Muhanga is the busiest airport in Rwanda.

It's busier than Kigali International Airport.

On a day-to-day basis we can do around 30

And then another 20 from our second distribution center in the eastern part of Rwanda, we are

currently working with 44 hospitals, but we are working to also onboard more health facilities.

So our goal is to be able to service all 500 health facilities in Rwanda using our two

distribution centers. It's capacity is estimated to be around 150 deliveries a day.

Zipline works to give access to vital medical supplies to patients in rural areas.

I think if we have been delivering pizzas to people's homes, we would have a harder time

like convincing the government to take a risk and like be the first country to actually

have drone delivery service on a national scale.

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How a High-Tech Drone Fleet Is Changing Medicine in Rwanda

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