The drones flew 1,200 times in one year, delivering medical supplies to those in need.
Drones have been flying over rivers to bring medical supplies to remote and Indigenous communities in British Columbia and now the project is expanding.
Originally, the first phase of the project was not designed to fly supplies but instead to do test runs to build knowledge. The drone, called Sparrow, was tested in all weather conditions, multiple times a day, five days a week. As the project continued, prescriptions and medicine were transported to the communities. Family physicians would see the patient virtually, understand their needs, send a prescription to a pharmacy and then have it delivered by drone to their home.Pawlovich has worked as a family physician that has supported Stellat’en First Nation for more than 20 years.
“This creates an opportunity to enhance the number of modalities of transportation in the medical supply chain that can strengthen rural communities and bring care closer to home to where patients and families are,” he says. Pawlovich says this will allow his team to fly into more remote communities and over mountains, “where those disparities are much more pronounced.”
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