The service agreement between Fly Zipline Ghana Limited and the government of Ghana to enable the use of drones to distribute essential medicines to remote areas in Ghana has been approved by Parliament.
The agreement was approved on Tuesday by a majority decision with 102 legislators voting for the policy while 58 opposed it.
The parent company of Zipline in California, which is an automated logistics company, helped the launch of the world’s first national drone delivery service in Rwanda in October 2016.
Per the terms of the agreement with the government of Ghana, Zipline will install, operate and maintain the drones.
Although the Minority in Parliament raised concerns over the cost of the project, the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, disputed the figures saying the service would come at a zero cost to government.
Zipline is an aeronautics startup based in rural California that has created a sustainable system to deliver medicine and other medical supplies to rural parts of the world.
Below is the video of how the drone will work;
By: Joseph Nii Ankrah
