Have Your Say on Use of Delivery Drones for Healthcare in Scotland

Project CAELUS (Care and Equi­ty UAS Logis­tics Scot­land) needs you! The inno­va­tion project is explor­ing how deliv­ery drones could improve health­care and the trans­porta­tion of such items in Scot­land, par­tic­u­lar­ly for rur­al and remote com­mu­ni­ties. CAELUS is ask­ing you to answer ques­tions from its sur­vey which may only take five to ten min­utes, where you can also post free com­ments.

Please CLICK HERE to Access the Sur­vey

The deliv­ery drones flown by Sky­ports weigh less than 25 kg and can car­ry around 2–4 kg in weight. CAELUS will also seek to demon­strate the use of larg­er drones with a much greater car­ry­ing capac­i­ty that take-off and land on an airstrip at an air­port, like a con­ven­tion­al air­craft.

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A CAELUS spokesper­son com­ment­ed, “We want to test if using drones will improve impor­tant aspects of our logis­tics ser­vice, for exam­ple, to test the trans­porta­tion of lab­o­ra­to­ry sam­ples, blood prod­ucts, chemother­a­py, and med­i­cine deliv­ery. Ulti­mate­ly, we want to explore if drone tech­nol­o­gy can speed up diag­no­sis and treat­ment of med­ical prob­lems.“

Adding, “This has the poten­tial to improve ser­vices for those whose care is depen­dent on rail, fer­ry or air­line timeta­bles and help keep peo­ple at home where they can be sup­port­ed by fam­i­lies and loved ones.” 

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.agsairports.co.uk/drones

(Top image: Sky­ports)