A
drone to deliver medical supplies, credit to DroneZon
You
might know that Israel was the first country to develop drone for
military purposes. Israeli doing it after 1973 war with Arab
countries.
However,
USA was the first country to use armed drone to strike Taliban in
2001. Afterward, several countries adopted military drones for war or
secure their borders from any intruders.
Then,
What is the First Country Using Drone for Medical Supplies Delivery?
The answer is quite surprising me that Rwanda, an African country.
The program started in 2016.
“No
one in Ghana should die because they can’t access the medicine they
need in an emergency,” said Ghana’s president to follow Rwanda
steps.
Ghana
extensively use drone as tools to deliver medical supplies, may be
the largest in the world to make everyone in the country to access
lifesaving medicines.
After
these two African countries, the USA relate institutions study the
possibility to use drones for medical transportation, especially for
organ transplants.
As
reported by Freeman (2019) that “There are now more than 113,000 people in need of an organ transplant. According to the most recent data, an average of 18 people die each
day while waiting for one.”
Engineers,
researchers, aviation experts and medical doctor collaborated to
develop daytime and nighttime organ drones to access to transplants
as low cost and quick as possible.
The
result that Americans able to transport an organ transplant, a kidney
by a drone in April 19, 2019. Doctor successfully to transplant the
kidney into a patient in southwestern Baltimore hospital.
The
organ transplant delivery by a drone was the first time in the world.
Reference
Freeman,
D. 2019. A drone just flew a kidney to a transplant patient for the
first time ever. It won't be the last. NBC News. Retrieved from
https://www..msn.com
/en-us/news/us
/a-drone-just-flew-a-kidney-to-a-transplant-patient-for-the-first-time-ever-it-wont-be-the-last/ar-AAARarx?ocid=spartandhp