Vice President of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nNot a single Ghanaian, irrespective of his or her remoteness, deserves to die due to lack of medical care, Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said while launching the Zipline medical drones service in the Eastern Region on Wednesday, 24 April 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo Ghanaian deserves to die because by no choice of his or hers they are in hard-to-reach areas in this country.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am reliably informed of the huge impact the drone technology has made in the healthcare delivery systems in other countries such as Rwanda and I have no doubt that the success will be replicated in Ghana when we start using the technology to deliver critical medical products\u201d, Dr Bawumia said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is, therefore, clear that we cannot reduce this service to the usual politicking because anybody who is dying will not be asked to show their party card before care is extended to them\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has refuted suggestions that the unmanned drone medical delivery system will be used to spy on women in the bathroom.<\/p>\n
The National Women\u2019s Organiser of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Hanna Bissiw, a few months ago urged rural Ghanaians, especially women, to reject the drone delivery service because the aircraft, according to her, are fitted with hidden that could be used to take pictures of their nudity in their open-top bathrooms.<\/p>\n
However, Mr Agyeman-Manu has assured Ghanaians that the drones do not use cameras.<\/p>\n
At the launch of the service, Mr Agyeman-Manu said: \u201cThe Zipline drones do not have any hidden cameras. No hidden cameras that should go monitor or spy on people and women when they are taking their bath, as has been put out by some members of those who always argue against the type of dreams that we have and the type of realities that are coming out\u201d.<\/p>\n
The minister also emphasised that the routine bulk deliveries of medical supplies will continue unabated while the Zipline service is used alongside to provide essential medical supplies during emergencies.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will not replace the regular and scheduled delivery of medicines to our health facilities,\u201d he noted<\/p>\n
Mr Agyeman-Manu also allayed the fears of joblessness due to the adoption of the technology-driven intervention.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one will lose his or her job. It is our expectation that more jobs will be created,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Also, the Paramount chief of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area, Okyehene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, described persons who work against the progress of the country as witches and wizards, noting that not every Ghanaian is happy about the introduction of the technology.<\/p>\n
In his view, therefore, \u201cWe need people who are going to be committed\u201d, adding: \u201cThat has been the problem of our country \u2013 a committed workforce, genuine, sincere people who will work to make this thing work.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Okyehene noted that: \u201cThere are people sitting somewhere who are going to say: \u2018We\u2019re going to destroy this by stealing the blood. The blood will never get to the table where the doctors need them.\u2019 In this country, drugs at a warehouse in Tema disappeared. So, I\u2019m saying that anyone who doesn\u2019t like progress is a bad person and also a witch\/wizard.\u201d<\/p>\n
The drone service will help hospitals receive medical packages between 15 to 17 minutes after making requests via WhatsApp or SMS.<\/p>\n
After a request is made, the Zipline centre sends a message to the hospital staff to confirm the order. Another message is sent to the hospital as soon as the drone is launched and then the hospital is prompted again five minutes to delivery. The package is released from beneath the drone to a programmed drop zone at the hospital premises and health officials can pick the requested order to be administered to patients immediately and the aircraft continues its flight back to base.<\/p>\n
Zipline\u2019s primary base is the Omenako Centre which will serve the Eastern, Volta and parts of the Ashanti regions with 20 Ghanaian engineers and operators. After the official launch of the project, three other distribution centres will be completed within the year and equipped with 120 aircraft collectively to serve areas within a radius of 80km across the country to provide about 150 medical products to 2000 health facilities.<\/p>\n
Zipline has been contracted to make 150 deliveries from each of the four bases daily but scalable to 500 deliveries from each base on a daily basis.<\/p>\n
The cost of the project is estimated at $12 million for the technology and $17 per delivery. Even though the Minority in Parliament has kicked against the project, advocates have highlighted the importance of the service in saving lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Vice President of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n