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By Manish Chaurasiya: Drones are everywhere. From helping click pre-wedding photos, to delivering pizza to winning wars. And it is flying into the healthcare sector too. A drone was used to carry blood bags from the GIMS hospital in Greater Noida and the Lady Hardinge Medical College in Delhi to Jaypee Institute in Noida Sector 62.
The drone completed the task by flying a distance of 35km in 15 minutes from the GIMS hospital in Greater Noida to the Jaypee Institute in Noida Sector 62. An ambulance doing the same task took over an hour.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya shared a video of the successful trial, lauding the strides made by the healthcare sector.
“Making Indian Healthcare Future-ready With ‘i-Drone’. Trial run of blood bag delivery by drone successfully conducted,” Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted.
The drone travelled a distance of about 35 kilometres in a span of 15 minutes. Meanwhile, an ambulance travelled the same distance carrying blood but took 1 and a half hours to do so.
There was no change seen in the blood after the trial was completed, meaning the drone’s vibration and temperature had no effect on the blood.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has been planning to transport organs using drones for some time now.
Dr (Brigadier) Rakesh Gupta, director of GIMS, believes that in the near future, this can also become a reality. However, a green corridor has to be prepared to move the organs from one place to another, he said.
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