New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has released a guidance document on the use of drones in health care to help the state health government deliver drones of medical materials.
The Apex Medical Research Institute published this article based on the box experience of Manipur and Nagaland. Medical parts such as measles, mumps and Covid-19 vaccines with a garage temperature between 2°C and 8°C, tablets and capsules, syrups in vials, gloves, syringes, blood bags, diagnostic biological tissues, urine, blood, sputum, saliva or frozen samples can only be transported following these guidelines.
“As a country of 1. 3 billion people, we have faced several demanding situations in modernizing our fitness system. The covid pandemic has further exacerbated this challenge, but it has also given us the opportunity to review some of the disruptions and resolve them. With the arrival of covid-19 vaccines, the ICMR has delivered those vaccines in hard-to-reach terrain in India. This guidance document will help to perceive the other nuances related to the elaboration of plans and the execution of the delivery of medical materials via drones,” said Professor Balram Bhargava, Director General of ICMR.
ICMR scientists collaborated with the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), the Government of India, the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the Airport Authority of India (AAI) to produce this document in accordance with the new drone rules-2021 which highlights tactics for deciding on drones, take-off and landing sites, etc.
The scope of this document covers spaces such as obtaining regulatory approvals from the competent government for types of drones and the use of airspace for the delivery of medical materials limited to medicines, vaccines and surgical equipment.
In addition, it highlights the strategies for deciding on suitable drone models and the criteria for opting for the issues of drone takeoff and landing and the type of medical materials that can be delivered through drones. The documents also how to prepare the shipment. boxes, load and unload shipping boxes and check the quality of medical materials before and after the flight. Most importantly, your article elaborates on the human resource wishes for drone delivery and the education wishes of healthcare workers.
“We first carried out a dry check at IIT-Kanpur and then introduced a pilot assignment in the northern states such as Manipur and Nagaland. The maximum vital point that should not be forgotten is the education of health care personnel in terms of data recording, control for analysis, validation, control of cash operations of unforeseen occasions. Also, opting for the right type of drone and amenities are some of the vital issues we talked about. States can gain advantages from this document,” said Dr. Samiran Panda, Additional Director General of ICMR, who is also the principal investigator of the drone healthcare delivery assignment.
“Drone generation has the potential to create revolutionary changes in almost every sector of the economy and public welfare, such as medical deliveries, search and rescue, agriculture and infrastructure development, public order and national security, to name a few. “Amber Dubey, assistant secretary of the Department of Civil Aviation, said in the document.
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