{"id":31068,"date":"2018-04-24T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=31068"},"modified":"2018-04-24T08:03:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T08:03:21","slug":"31068-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/31068-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana To Use Drones To Distribute Blood, Drugs &#8211; Dr Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President,\u00a0Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed that government will soon utilize drone technology in the country by September, this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Veep, government will use drones to distribute blood supplies and essential medicines\u00a0to remote communities.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that government will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with a health service provider this week to effect this initiative.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;By the grace of God; there are ongoing discussions, we are looking at innovative ways to deliver blood supplies as well as essential medicines to remote areas. As the rains come in, some areas are going to be cut off\u2026 Do we allow mothers to die because we can\u2019t have blood supplies or essential medicines? Ghana this week will be signing an MOU and by the middle of this year or by September, we will join Malawi and Rwanda with using drone technology to deliver blood supplies and essential medicines. So we are going to do that this year.\u201d He said.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr Bawumia was speaking at the opening of the Annual Health Summit organized by the Ministry of Health, in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting which came off on Monday was on the theme: \u2018\u2018Achieving Universal Health Coverage-Using Innovative Approaches\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bawumia explained that this is part of the government\u2019s effort to ensure quality healthcare delivery.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><em>\u2018\u2018We don\u2019t have to allow our mothers to die because we can\u2019t have blood supplies and essential medicines sent to them,\u2019\u2019 Dr Bawumia said.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also said that the system of delivering blood supplies and essential drugs was being implemented in some African countries. He cited countries such as Malawi and Rwanda.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inread_ad\">The Vice President did not give full details about this development. However, he maintained that government is willing to introduce other innovations to boost the country\u2019s health sector.<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President,\u00a0Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed that government will soon utilize drone technology in the country by September, this year. According to the Veep, government will use drones to distribute blood supplies and essential medicines\u00a0to remote communities. He disclosed that government will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with a health service provider this week to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":31177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24066,3509],"class_list":["post-31068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ghana-health-service","tag-ghana-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ghana To Use Drones To Distribute Blood, Drugs - Dr Bawumia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ghana to use drones to distribute blood supplies and essential medicines, Dr Bawumia discloses the use of drone technology in Ghana, Ghana to use drones, when will drones be used in Ghana, when will Ghana begin to use drone technology to distribute blood and essential medicines?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/31068-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ghana To Use Drones To Distribute Blood, Drugs - Dr Bawumia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ghana to use drones to distribute blood supplies and essential medicines, Dr Bawumia discloses the use of drone technology in Ghana, Ghana to use drones, when will drones be used in Ghana, when will Ghana begin to use drone technology to distribute blood and essential medicines?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/31068-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghafla! 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