Drone delivers life-saving medicines to remote Meghalaya village
A public health centre in Maweit village of Meghalaya’s West Khasi Hills district on Friday received medicines from Nongstoin district hospital in about 25 minutes — a process that usually takes four hours — thanks to a drone delivery system.
Hybrid e-VTOLs [Vertical Take-Off and Landing Vehicles] of TechEagle, a Gurugram-based tech start-up, which partnered with the Meghalaya government and Smart Village Movement, an NGO, carried out the country’s first hybrid e-VTOL drone delivery of lifesaving medicines to the village.
Doctors at Nongstoin district hospital handed over the medicines to TechEagle’s team, following which an e-VTOL drone, AquilaX2, took off vertically like a helicopter and then transformed into a fixed-wing mode upon reaching the mission height.
