Each day we see disruptive innovations in healthcare and HFN has continued to advocate for and promote radical and life saving innovations in healthcare in Nigeria. With the traffic in Lagos and many large cities in the country, coupled with not very well maintained or even motorable roads in both cities and rural communities, an innovation by a company called Zipline, reported in Rwanda as using drones to deliver blood transfusion is something we sorely need in Nigeria. The article, reproduced below is hoped to be some of the innovations that will be discussed and actively promoted for actualisation at the upcoming March 21st 2019 Digital Health Stakeholders Summit taking Place at Radisson Blu Hotel, Ikeja Lagos. Read how Information Technology is being employed in Rwanda, here in Africa to save lives by delivering Blood to where it is needed in far flung hospitals, a way that is helping solve the universal challenge of supply chain and logistics in health.
Monday, 11 March 2019 21:15
How Zipline is delivering blood by drones and saving mothers’ lives in Rwanda
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