Drone-Based Vaccine Delivery Model: i-Drone

  • Recently, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched a Drone-Based vaccine delivery model named, Drone Response and Outreach in North East (i- Drone).
  • Drone is a layman terminology for Unmanned Aircraft (UA). There are three subsets of Unmanned Aircraft- Remotely Piloted Aircraft, Autonomous Aircraft and Model Aircraft.

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  • Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has devised the model to make sure that life-saving vaccines reach everyone.
  • It has been designed to facilitate vaccine delivery to tough and hard-to- reach terrains of India.

 

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