{"id":452542,"date":"2021-11-29T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T04:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=452542"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:38:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T06:08:48","slug":"drone-delivers-life-saving-medicines-to-remote-meghalaya-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/drone-delivers-life-saving-medicines-to-remote-meghalaya-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone delivers life-saving medicines to remote Meghalaya village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A public health centre in Maweit village of Meghalaya&#8217;s West Khasi Hills district on Friday received medicines from Nongstoin district hospital in about 25 minutes \u2014 a process that usually takes four hours \u2014 thanks to a drone delivery system. <\/p>\n<p>Hybrid e-VTOLs\u202f[Vertical\u202fTake-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&#8217;s first hybrid e-VTOL drone delivery of lifesaving medicines to the village. <\/p>\n<p>Doctors at Nongstoin district hospital handed over the medicines to TechEagle&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public health centre in Maweit village of Meghalaya&#8217;s West Khasi Hills district on Friday received medicines from Nongstoin district hospital in about 25 minutes \u2014 a process that usually takes four hours \u2014 thanks to a drone delivery system. Hybrid e-VTOLs\u202f[Vertical\u202fTake-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&#8217;s first hybrid e-VTOL drone delivery of lifesaving medicines to the village. Doctors at Nongstoin district hospital handed over the medicines to TechEagle&#8217;s team, following which an e-VTOL drone, AquilaX2, took off vertically like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}