An aerial view of the Maasai Mara in Kenya. The image was taken from a scorching air balloon.

Wingcopter Companions with Siemens Healthlineers for Drone Supply of Lab Samples in Africa

by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian M. Crosby

Wingcopter GmbH has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Siemens Healthineers Center East, Southern & Jap Africa to develop and implement an built-in drone supply resolution for the transportation of laboratory diagnostics supplies and medical provides in Africa. Leveraging each Siemens Healthineers’ Laboratory Diagnostics testing capabilities and Wingcopter’s drone supply providers will end in enhanced diagnostics and faster remedy. The answer will make use of each firms’ most up-to-date digital know-how, together with extremely automated drone supply in addition to Laboratory Info Techniques able to precisely monitoring and reporting outcomes on to sufferers.

“At Siemens Healthineers, we’re dedicated to offering entry to care for everybody,” stated Ole Maloy, Managing Director of Siemens Healthineers Center East, Southern & Jap Africa. “Our partnership with Wingcopter will look to bridge the present gaps in healthcare infrastructure, offering equitable and reasonably priced entry to diagnostic testing and medical provides.”

Utilizing Wingcopter’s supply drones alongside Siemens Healthineers’ laboratory diagnostics services will allow speedy automated 2-way supply of samples, drugs and different medical merchandise. Wingcopter will pilot the drones, protecting a variety of 75 kilometers whereas sustaining the chilly chain always. These drone supply networks will allow the centralization of pattern testing and medical consumables distribution, resulting in higher entry to prognosis, speedy turnaround time, improved effectivity and decrease prices.

“We’re satisfied that now we have discovered the right associate for our daring ambitions to enhance and save the lives of tens of millions of individuals on the African continent and past,” stated Wingcopter GmbH CEO and Co-founder Tom Plümmer. “Partnering with Siemens Healthineers will carry us a giant step nearer to the purpose we’re working tirelessly in the direction of: to make an actual social affect worldwide for many who want it most by means of quick, dependable and sustainable drone supply networks within the sky.”

In response to a report from the World Financial institution and WHO, roughly half of the world’s inhabitants lacks entry to essential well being providers equivalent to well timed diagnostic providers. Along with growing accessibility for diagnostic testing, the drone supply resolution can have a optimistic affect on the UN Sustainable Improvement Objectives, together with entry to well being, potential reductions in carbon footprint and the danger of highway accidents, and capability constructing on drone operations. Wingcopter intends to create jobs inside the drone business by coaching native younger individuals, an method it beforehand utilized in Malawi the place its present operations are run by an all-local, majority-female crew.

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Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he acquired a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in know-how, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a workers author.

Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, an expert drone providers market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone business and the regulatory setting for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles centered on the industrial drone house and is a world speaker and acknowledged determine within the business.  Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising and marketing for brand spanking new applied sciences.
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