29/04/2019
We believe that Africa offers HUGE opportunities for UAV Solutions. Read below on the latest developments in Ghana.
Last week, Zipline International Inc. the San Francisco based drone manufacturer and logistical services company, launched a program in Ghana to deliver medical supplies by drone. In partnership with the government of the West African country, Zipline will fly 30 drones from four distribution centers to deliver medical supplies, such as vaccines, blood, and medication to 2,000 healthcare facilities across the country on a daily basis. Zipline also confirmed that it is looking to expand their services to other countries and to take their delivery service by drone from testing-phase to live-deliveries in the U.S., sometime this summer.
Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo told TechCrunch in a call that:
“We’ll do 600 flights a day…and serve 12 million people. This is going to be the largest drone delivery network on the planet.”
In a statement Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said:
“No one in Ghana should die because they can’t access the medicine they need in an emergency. That’s why Ghana is launching the world’s largest drone delivery service… A major step towards giving everyone in this country universal access to lifesaving medicine.”
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