Faster with wings: Ghana’s immunisation rates soar in districts where drone delivery is available

Good news for e.g. chocolate lovers! 😋

For countries with a dispersed and/or sparse/remote population and poor roadways, this is the way to go.

"... The health centre serves a community of 26,531 individuals, most of them from cocoa-farming families, says Richard Junior Mensah, Senior Community Health Nurse. The vaccine clinic is open daily, and most Sundays, the health workers bring cold boxes stocked with vaccine doses out to churches. ..."

Faster with wings: Ghana’s immunisation rates soar in Zipline-served districts | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance [the article is very long] Drone delivery of vaccines has helped immunisation programmes in remote parts of Ghana’s Western North region bounce back faster than average from the pandemic’s impact, new research says. VaccinesWork visited the Zipline regional hub to find out more.