Filled With Blood And Drugs, These Delivery Drones Are Saving Lives In Africa

“You might still be waiting for pizza delivery by air, but in Rwanda (and soon in Tanzania), drones are already in the air, and doing much more important work.

Inside a drone delivery center in Rwanda–the first in the world to make medical deliveries at a national scale–staff answered an emergency call in July. A hospital needed blood for a 24-year-old woman who had just given birth by caesarian section. The hospital had transfused her with two units of blood. But she bled out of those units in 10 minutes…”

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