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"A fleet of drones is transforming health care in rural Ghana, delivering millions of critical vaccines, medications, antivenoms, and blood units to remote facilities with limited access to such inventory.
About the program: The delivery service is funded by Ghana’s government and implemented by the California-based company Zipline, which built a digital platform connecting ~3,000 health facilities to six distribution hubs.
Mobile requests are sent to these hubs, where products are placed in temperature-controlled packaging and delivered via drone and parachute.
Impact: The drones have delivered 8.4 million medical products in Ghana from 2019 to 2025—drops credited with saving ~9,700 lives. ..."
"... “We serve over 3,000 health facilities from hospitals to community health compounds in 162 districts across 14 regions” out of Ghana’s 16 ...
Zipline’s drones have dispatched more than 17 million vaccine doses, 20,000 blood units and over 30,000 anti-venoms, completing more than 6,750 critical deliveries annually ..."
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