The Zone three Zipline Technology at Vobsi in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region will start delivering medical supplies via drones in the sector by the end of this month.
The Centre would be run by an all Ghanaian crew of engineers, health professionals and logistics personnel.
It would deliver 148 medical products including blood and life-saving medicines to about 500 health facilities across the Savannah, Northern, North East and Upper East Regions.
GBC’s Samuel Ayammah reports that when completed, the Zone three Zipline Technology at Vobsi in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region will host the largest warehouse under the drone programme.
It will immediately serve 60 health facilities, with an expected scale up to 500 health facilities within an 80 km radius in the five regions of the North by the end of this year.
Apart from the main operational facility which is 95 percent complete, work is also ongoing for the construction of a 22-bed housing project to accommodate core staff nearby and ensure operational efficiency.
Like the two other facilities at Omenako near Suhum in the Eastern Region and Mampong in the Ashanti Region, the Vobsi facility will be run by an all-Ghanaian crew of engineers, health care professionals and logistics personnel, and paid for by the private sector through their corporate social responsibility obligations with no cost to government.
Speaking to Radio Ghana after Officials of Ziplin
