{"id":241901,"date":"2023-05-11T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=241901"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:56:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:26:31","slug":"idrone-initiative-icmr-conducts-trial-run-of-blood-bag-delivery-by-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/idrone-initiative-icmr-conducts-trial-run-of-blood-bag-delivery-by-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"iDrone Initiative: ICMR conducts trial run of blood bag delivery by drone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span><b>e \u201cICMR conducts trial run of blood bag delivery by drone\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>11th May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has successfully conducted a trial run of the delivery of blood bags under its iDrone initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the iDrone Initiative?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Launched by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To assess the feasibility of using drones to deliver vaccines and medical supplies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> i-Drone was first used by ICMR during the Covid-19 pandemic for distributing vaccines to hard-to-reach areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It is now being used to deliver blood and blood-related products which are supposed to be kept at a low temperature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Which other countries use drones to deliver medical supplies?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some countries are already using drones to deliver blood products, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and even organs to remote, rural areas or areas with poor infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Ghana, drone delivery of blood &#8212; both as laboratory samples and as emergency blood and blood product delivery &#8212; is now available for thousands of health facilities serving millions of people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cICMR conducts trial run of blood bag delivery by drone\u201d published in The Hindu on 11th May 2023 What is the News? The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has successfully conducted a trial run of the delivery of blood bags under its iDrone initiative. What is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/idrone-initiative-icmr-conducts-trial-run-of-blood-bag-delivery-by-drone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iDrone Initiative: ICMR conducts trial run of blood bag delivery by drone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-241901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}