Medical drone facility launches in Borås – with Everdrone delivering defibrillators to residents in under three minutes

Healthtech firm Ever­drone has sup­plied med­ical drones to the Väs­tra Göta­land Region (VGR) in Swe­den, strength­en­ing emer­gency health­care to reach about 300,000 res­i­dents.

The drone is dis­patched in response to emer­gency calls and deliv­ers defib­ril­la­tors while await­ing ambu­lance arrival. The new base was inau­gu­rat­ed on April 29th and will became oper­a­tional ear­li­er this month.

Based in the city of Borås, the new base will be the fourth facil­i­ty deploy­ing Everdrone’s new-gen­er­a­tion drone (E3). The project is led by the Väs­tra Göta­land Region in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Karolin­s­ka Insti­tutet and Ever­drone.

Daniel Blech­er, Head of Cus­tomer Oper­a­tions at Ever­drone, said: “The base in Borås has been strate­gi­cal­ly locat­ed based on analy­sis of pop­u­la­tion den­si­ty, pre­vi­ous emer­gency inci­dents, and air­space avail­abil­i­ty.”

Mag­nus Hall­berg von Gei­jer, COO at Ever­drone, added: “In cas­es of car­diac arrest, imme­di­ate car­diopul­monary resus­ci­ta­tion and access to a defib­ril­la­tor are crit­i­cal for sur­vival – every minute counts. While wait­ing for an ambu­lance, Everdrone’s new drone can arrive in under three min­utes car­ry­ing a defib­ril­la­tor.”

The drone sys­tem con­sists of Everdrone’s new-gen­er­a­tion med­ical drone, E3, which offers sig­nif­i­cant­ly improved per­for­mance com­pared to its pre­de­ces­sor. It flies faster and far­ther and is designed for the Nordic cli­mate, capa­ble of oper­at­ing in cold, snow, rain and wind.

Ever­drone AB is a lead­ing provider of autonomous drone sys­tems for emer­gency response and health­care, head­quar­tered in Gothen­burg, Swe­den.

Its pro­pri­etary tech­nol­o­gy enables the extreme­ly rapid deliv­ery of life-sav­ing med­ical equipment—such as auto­mat­ed exter­nal defib­ril­la­tors (AEDs)—directly to the scene, while also pro­vid­ing real-time video sup­port to emer­gency dis­patch­ers.

Known for safe, reg­u­la­to­ry-com­pli­ant oper­a­tions in urban areas, the com­pa­ny col­lab­o­rates with pub­lic author­i­ties to inte­grate its sys­tems with exist­ing emer­gency infra­struc­ture.

Everdrone’s work has been fea­tured in lead­ing med­ical jour­nals, includ­ing The Lancet and The New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine, and gained inter­na­tion­al atten­tion as the first to save a life using an autonomous drone. The com­pa­ny is expand­ing inter­na­tion­al­ly, with pilot pro­grams and col­lab­o­ra­tions across Europe