Vicarabad: About 75 km from Hyderabad, Clear Blue Sky from Vicarabad witnessed a historic moment on Saturday when the drone buzzed the medical cargo valuable as part of the ‘drug from the sky’ project.
In the first for the country, Drone began sending soul-saving medical supplies, including Covid-19 vaccines, outside the visual visual line (BVLOS) range, which was more than a distance of 500 meters, in the district.
‘Medicine from the Sky’ is a joint initiative from the Telangana Government, World Economic Forum, Niti Aayog, and Global HealthNet (Apollo Hospitals), as part of where eight consorsia has been chosen to perform BVLOS flights for essential delivery to the remote.
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On Saturday, the Med Express Bluedart consortium, Hecicopter consortium, and Curisfly consortium showed drone flights.
Civil Aviation Union Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of Telangana IT & Industry KT Rama Rao and Education Minister Telangana P Sabitha Indra Reddy is part of the audience.
Scindia shows that as part of the SKY digital platform, drone players will be able to use a single window permit by clicking the button.
The platform will have an interactive map that will be green (free to fly for drones), the yellow zone (requires permission) and red (prohibited) makes it easier for drone players to map their trajectories.
The Union Minister also said that learning from the ‘Medical Project from the sky’ would pave the way for the delivery of delivery of drugs to save life and sustain in the area far in the country.
“In 16 green zones, drones will be flown as part of the project and the data produced will be analyzed in three months to make the model for the entire country,” he said.
Prem Kumar Vislawath, founder, Marut Drone, who was part of the Hecicopter consortium, said The Drone Tech Player had mobilized two drones.
“The Hepicopter platform, with the current drone class, can support vaccinations in remote areas by carrying around 2,000-5,000 vaccine doses at 2-8 degrees Celsius on a trip with a straight line of 20-40 km,” he said, adding that a pair of drones could Fly around 10 trips every day.
Vikram Singh Meena, CEO & Founder, Techeagle (part of Curisfly Consortium) said that the drone brought a load of 4 kg and 200 covid vaccine doses, maintaining a temperature of 2.4 degrees Celsius for 15.6 km in 15 minutes.