Blue Dart India has formed Blue Dart Med-Express Consortium with the mission to revolutionise the delivery of vaccines and emergency medical supplies to the remotest parts of India with drones. A part of the ‘Medicine from the Sky’ project in collaboration with the Government of Telangana, World Economic Forum, Niti Aayog and Healthnet Global, the consortium is aiming 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.
Mentioned a Blue Dart India source that the consortium drone flights will deploy an immersive delivery model to optimise the current healthcare logistics within Telangana, enabling deliveries from district medical stores and blood banks to Primary Health Centers (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs), blood storage units and further on