“Bluenest by Globalvia Launches Spain’s First Drone Trials for Urgent Medical Samples”

Bluen­est, the inno­va­tion arm of Glob­alvia, has launched a drone tri­al project in La Gomera (Canary Islands) in part­ner­ship with the Island Coun­cil of La Gomera, Proex­ca and the La Gomera Health Author­i­ty, reports a press release. The ini­tia­tive intro­duces the use of drones to trans­port med­ical sam­ples.

The release explains, “The pro­gram estab­lish­es Bluen­est as a key play­er in the deploy­ment of safe, sus­tain­able, and effi­cient air mobil­i­ty sys­tems, bring­ing cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy to the fore­front of pub­lic health and logis­tics ser­vices.”

It con­tin­ues, “Unveiled in Playa de San­ti­a­go, the project involves the cre­ation of a low-alti­tude aer­i­al cor­ri­dor link­ing all six munic­i­pal­i­ties on the island with the cen­tral hos­pi­tal and var­i­ous health cen­tres. In this first phase, tri­al flights are being con­duct­ed along two main routes: the south­ern cor­ri­dor con­nect­ing Playa de Santiago’s health cen­tre with San Sebastián’s hos­pi­tal; and the north­ern cor­ri­dor link­ing the hos­pi­tal with the Her­migua health cen­tre.”

José Igna­cio Rodríguez, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of Bluen­est by Glob­alvia, com­ment­ed, “This first pilot pro­gram for unmanned med­ical drone trans­port rep­re­sents a major step for­ward in our com­mit­ment to safer, more pre­dictable, effi­cient and envi­ron­men­tal­ly con­scious logis­tics solu­tions. La Gomera offers an ide­al envi­ron­ment to val­i­date the mod­el, and we are con­fi­dent this col­lab­o­ra­tion will pave the way for a ful­ly oper­a­tional ver­ti­port net­work across the arch­i­pel­ago.”

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Due to the use of elec­tric eVTOL drones, trans­port times such as the 40-minute road jour­ney in the south can be reduced to just 10 min­utes by air. The craft are capa­ble of car­ry­ing up to three kilo­grams over dis­tances of up to 100 kilo­me­tres, offer­ing a ver­sa­tile solu­tion tai­lored to the island’s unique ter­rain and logis­ti­cal needs.

Fer­nan­do Clav­i­jo, Pres­i­dent of the Canary Islands, remarked, “It is a land­mark moment in the use of drones for health­care pur­pos­es on the island and across the region.” 

Casimiro Curbe­lo, Pres­i­dent of the Island Coun­cil, said, “Key appli­ca­tions for the drone sys­tem include the rapid trans­port of blood sam­ples, plas­ma, and med­ica­tion, as well as the deliv­ery of sur­gi­cal equip­ment and crit­i­cal spare parts to remote clin­ics. The drones will also sup­port infra­struc­ture inspec­tion and civ­il pro­tec­tion mis­sions. 

He added, “La Gomera is tak­ing flight, not with promis­es, but with action.” 

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La Gomera’s geo­graph­ic loca­tion makes it an ide­al can­di­date for serv­ing as a cen­tral hub in a region­al drone net­work. The ini­tial vision includes con­nect­ing the island with Tener­ife, with future phas­es poten­tial­ly expand­ing the net­work to La Pal­ma and El Hier­ro.

Envi­ron­men­tal safe­guards have been inte­grat­ed, includ­ing mea­sures for wildlife pro­tec­tion and com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with eco­log­i­cal cor­ri­dors, mak­ing this a mod­el for sus­tain­able logis­tics that direct­ly enhances the qual­i­ty of life on the island.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.bluenest.io 

www.globalvia.com

(Top image: Mem­bers of the Project Team)

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