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"Five minutes before midnight on the last day of 2023, a doctor in northern
Rwanda sent a WhatsApp message requesting supplies. His patient, a woman who
had just given birth, was hemorrhaging.
By land, it would take about four hours to reach this region of the mountainous
country. Instead, the journey took just 18 minutes. A drone dropped a red box,
containing a blood product that supports coagulation, with a white paper
parachute outside the medical center.
But after the treatment, the woman was still struggling.
“Within another 10 minutes we were able to send blood to save the young
mother,” says Pierre Kayitana, the Rwanda general manager for Zipline, the
company that operates the drone system that serves medical centers across the
central African country."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
