Almost a calendar year just after launching the 2nd health-related drone distribution centre at Mpanya in the Ashanti Region, President Akufo-Addo has commissioned the fourth health-related drone distribution centre of Zipline, in Sefwi Wiawso in the Western-North Region.
In accordance to President Akufo-Addo, “the launch of the fourth healthcare drone distribution centre, is section of our broader determination to expanding the access of this provider, and making certain that we do not leave anyone driving in accessibility to important medicines. By this, it implies that we now have the major professional medical drone delivery company in the complete entire world.”
Talking at the commissioning ceremony on Thursday, 24th September 2020, the President said that even although some political actors went as far as building unfortunate, sick-viewed as statements about the drones, the Ghanaian people today can all see how impactful this services has been, just inside the earlier eighteen months of its functions.
“I am informed more than that some 120,000 professional medical merchandise have been shipped to quite a few overall health amenities across the nation from the different distribution centres.
“With the coming on stream of this fourth centre at Sefwi Wiawso, Zipline will be in a position to serve about 2,000 wellness facilities within their variety,” he claimed.
Citing the case in point of a single Charles Coffie, a 44-yr-outdated driver in the Eastern Area, for case in point, who was saved by the provide of unexpected emergency blood solutions soon after he experienced extreme bleeding through an operation, the President mentioned that “this is the kind of impression we are speaking about”.
He also noted that in the early times of the country’s combat versus Covid-19, medical drones were being engaged to expedite the transportation of samples to laboratory centres throughout the region.
“We have also read very constructive stories from health and fitness practitioners of the many health and fitness amenities benefiting from this undertaking. These testimonies position to 1 thing – we are not able to find the money for to enjoy politics with anything in this nation,” he claimed.
The President included, “The incessant politicisation of all problems does no credit rating to Ghanaian community life. When Zipline is termed to offer blood goods all through unexpected emergency predicaments, it does not request if the receiver is an NPP or NDC member before performing so. Health and fitness, like numerous other factors of our national lifetime, appreciates no bash colours.”
With the coming on-stream of the fourth distribution centre, Zipline now has the capability of serving about 2,000 health amenities within their variety.
The President was fired up that the Ministry of Health and fitness and the Ghana Overall health Service and other important stakeholders have presently initiated discussions with Zipline in direction of the risk of growing the drone solutions to other deprived and challenging-to-reach communities.
