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Wingcopter Companions with Siemens Healthlineers for Drone Supply of Lab Samples in Africa
by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian M. Crosby
Wingcopter GmbH has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Siemens Healthineers Center East, Southern & Japanese Africa to develop and implement an built-in drone supply answer 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 lead to enhanced diagnostics and faster remedy. The answer will make use of each corporations’ most up-to-date digital expertise, together with extremely automated drone supply in addition to Laboratory Data Programs 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 & Japanese Africa. “Our partnership with Wingcopter will look to bridge the prevailing gaps in healthcare infrastructure, offering equitable and inexpensive entry to diagnostic testing and medical provides.”
Utilizing Wingcopter’s supply drones alongside Siemens Healthineers’ laboratory diagnostics amenities will allow fast automated 2-way supply of samples, medication 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, fast 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 convey us a giant step nearer to the purpose we’re working tirelessly in direction of: to make an actual social impression worldwide for individuals who want it most by 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 rising accessibility for diagnostic testing, the drone supply answer can have a constructive impression on the UN Sustainable Improvement Targets, together with entry to well being, potential reductions in carbon footprint and the danger of street accidents, and capability constructing on drone operations. Wingcopter intends to create jobs throughout the drone business by coaching native younger folks, 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 expertise, 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 atmosphere 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 for brand spanking new applied sciences.
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