Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia has launched 'Medicines from the Sky', in Telagana. which seeks to send medicines to primary healthcare centres using drones. The pilot would test the delivery of medicines using the drones beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) at 500 metres.
• “This ‘Medicines from the Sky’ project will be taken up in 16 green zones.
• The data will be analysed for three months.
• Along with the health ministry, IT ministry, state government and the Centre will together analyse the data and make a model for the whole country.
The consortia partners are from Drone Company, logistics, UTM Service Provider and a Healthcare and Cold chain expert as partners. The startup partners include Airserve, BlueDart Express, TechEagle Innovations, Dunzo, Marut Drones, Sagar Defence, Redwing Labs.
