The model will enable deliveries from district medical stores and blood banks to Primary Health Centers (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs), Blood Storage Units & further from PHCs/CHCs to Central Diagnostic laboratories.
Deutsche Post DHL Group‘s Indian arm and the country’s leading express logistics service provider, Blue Dart, has formed Blue Dart Med-Express Consortium to disrupt the current logistics setup to deliver vaccines and emergency medical supplies to the most remote of the country using Drones.
The government of Telangana, World Economic Forum, Niti Aayog, and Healthnet Global has collaborated on the project ‘Medicine from the Sky’, of which Blue Dart Med-Express Consortium is a part. Blue Dart has been consistent in its support to the nation in the fight against the pandemic.
Blue Dart has continuously worked with the medical equipment and pharmaceuticals sector to maintain the supply chain and deliver the critical shipment and essential supplies including Covid vaccine samples, temperature-controlled movement of COVID-19 testing kits, ventilators, PPE, testing kits, reagents, enzymes, respirators, surgical masks, goggles and gloves amongst other critical material.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has granted the project with necessary exemptions and rights to fly drone flights on an experimental basis in Telangana. The aim is to assess an alternate logistics route in providing safe, accurate, and reliable pickup and delivery of health care items (medicines, covid-19 vaccines, units of blood, diagnostic specimens, and other lifesaving equipment) from distribution centre to specific location and back.
Blue Dart is committed to improving the supply chain infrastructure and is fighting hard to combat the pandemic. Blue Dart Med-Express Drone flights will deploy an immersive delivery model to optimize the current healthcare logistics within Telangana. The model will enable deliveries from district medical stores and blood banks to Primary Health Centers (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs), Blood Storage Units & further from PHCs/CHCs to Central Diagnostic laboratories.
Smt. Rama Devi Lanka, Director of Emerging Technologies and Officer on Special Duty (OSD), ITE&C Department, Government of Telangana, says, “The project would generate real and actionable insights to drive future adoption policies and integration with the existing healthcare supply chain. With covid-19 pandemic wrecking existing supply chains, adopting such disruptive technologies is the need of the hour.”
The model will enable deliveries from district medical stores and blood banks to Primary Health Centers (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs), Blood Storage Units & further from PHCs/CHCs to Central Diagnostic laboratories.
Deutsche Post DHL Group‘s Indian arm and the country’s leading express logistics service provider, Blue Dart, has formed Blue Dart Med-Express Consortium to disrupt the current logistics setup to deliver vaccines and emergency medical supplies to the most remote of the country using Drones.
The government of Telangana, World Economic Forum, Niti Aayog, and Healthnet Global has collaborated on the project ‘Medicine from the Sky’, of which Blue Dart Med-Express Consortium is a part. Blue Dart has been consistent in its support to the nation in the fight against the pandemic.
Blue Dart has continuously worked with the medical equipment and pharmaceuticals sector to maintain the supply chain and deliver the critical shipment and essential supplies including Covid vaccine samples, temperature-controlled movement of COVID-19 testing kits, ventilators, PPE, testing kits, reagents, enzymes, respirators, surgical masks, goggles and gloves amongst other critical material.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has granted the project with necessary exemptions and rights to fly drone flights on an experimental basis in Telangana. The aim is to assess an alternate logistics route in providing safe, accurate, and reliable pickup and delivery of health care items (medicines, covid-19 vaccines, units of blood, diagnostic specimens, and other lifesaving equipment) from distribution centre to specific location and back.
Blue Dart is committed to improving the supply chain infrastructure and is fighting hard to combat the pandemic. Blue Dart Med-Express Drone flights will deploy an immersive delivery model to optimize the current healthcare logistics within Telangana. The model will enable deliveries from district medical stores and blood banks to Primary Health Centers (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs), Blood Storage Units & further from PHCs/CHCs to Central Diagnostic laboratories.
Smt. Rama Devi Lanka, Director of Emerging Technologies and Officer on Special Duty (OSD), ITE&C Department, Government of Telangana, says, “The project would generate real and actionable insights to drive future adoption policies and integration with the existing healthcare supply chain. With covid-19 pandemic wrecking existing supply chains, adopting such disruptive technologies is the need of the hour.”
