Netherlands: Rigitech Embraces Medical Drone Service as Operator of  its Eiger Drone “to Enhance Healthcare Access”

Swiss-based, Rig­itech, a lead­ing Euro­pean drone deliv­ery com­pa­ny, announced last week, Med­ical Drone Ser­vice (MDS) as a new oper­a­tor of its Eiger drone mod­el to enhance health­care ser­vices in the Nether­lands, reports a press release. 

MDS is a col­lab­o­ra­tive endeav­our between ANWB Med­ical Air Assis­tance and PostNl Health, in part­ner­ship with lead­ing health­care insti­tu­tions includ­ing Eras­mus MC, Result­lab, Ams­ter­dam UMC and Accure­on. 

The release explains, “Hold­ing a shared vision of ensur­ing health­care acces­si­bil­i­ty through­out the Nether­lands, Med­ical Drone Ser­vice aims to expe­dite med­ical assis­tance and strength­en inter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty among health­care facil­i­ties. This ini­tia­tive encom­pass­es swift trans­porta­tion of cru­cial med­ical sup­plies such as blood, med­ica­tion, and diag­nos­tic sam­ples via drones, enabling rapid and effi­cient deliv­ery to patients.”

The Rig­iTech Eiger, dis­tin­guished by its yel­low wings, has a pay­load capac­i­ty of 3 kgms with­in a spe­cial­ly designed med­ical bag com­part­ment, capa­ble of accom­mo­dat­ing up to 180 blood tubes, a min­i­mum of 3 blood bags, or var­i­ous oth­er med­ica­tions. With a flight range of approx­i­mate­ly 100 kms, the Eiger has an onboard para­chute sys­tem and expands the Med­ical Drone Ser­vice oper­a­tional capa­bil­i­ties, “facil­i­tat­ing flight over dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed areas and sup­port­ing the initiative’s expan­sion efforts,” con­tin­ues the release.

It goes on, “This strate­gic enhance­ment comes in response to the grow­ing demand for med­ical drone ser­vices, requir­ing the estab­lish­ment of new oper­a­tional routes beyond the ini­tial Mep­pel-Zwolle cor­ri­dor.” 

Rig­iTech has already pro­vid­ed full train­ing to the per­son­nel of MDS, giv­ing them the abil­i­ty to utilise the Eiger plat­form “and nav­i­gate both hard­ware and soft­ware intri­ca­cies. Addi­tion­al­ly, the manufacturer’s train­ing pro­gram empow­ers oper­a­tors with valu­able insights into scal­ing med­ical drone oper­a­tions, ensur­ing seam­less inte­gra­tion into exist­ing health­care infra­struc­ture, says the release.”

Dur­ing 2024, MDS will con­duct tri­als and inau­gu­rate its maid­en route, paving the way for oper­a­tional deploy­ment.

Back­ground

Found­ed in 2018, the aim of Rig­itech was always to cre­ate a ful­ly-inte­grat­ed drone deliv­ery system.The cen­tralised Rig­i­Cloud soft­ware infra­struc­ture ensures reli­able, com­pli­ant com­mu­ni­ca­tions, flight track­ing and fleet main­te­nance man­age­ment. 

RigiTech’s drones have been approved for and flown BVLOS oper­a­tions on 5 con­ti­nents, across Europe, Asia, Ocea­nia, North and South Amer­i­ca, with a focus on health­care, off­shore and postal mar­kets.

Drone Ser­vices Rig­iTech “to Deliv­er Med­ical Health­care Across Mal­dives”  

For more infor­ma­tion

https://rigi.tech/

https://medicaldroneservice.nl/en/

(Images: Rig­itech)

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