In a release on “Facts on the Zipline drone project…” on the 4th of December 2018 by Douglas Adu-Fokuo of the Public Relations Unit of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), we seem to be very close to implementing the project if not the hurdle the contract has encountered with the lawmakers.
There is only one example that many are citing on the subject matter. The successful implementation of the project in Rwanda. The negative so far has been the lack of transparency in the cost of the project in Rwanda.
Healthcare applications include, but are not limited to: provision disaster assessments, delivering aid packages, medicine, vaccines, blood, and other medical supplies to remote areas; transport of disease test samples and test kits (Zègre-Hemsey et al, 2018)
In a publication on “Drones Capable of Delivering Blood Products” in Transfusion News, November 2016 edition, blood products platelet units (storage temperature 20 to 24ᴼC), red blood cell (RBC) units (storage temperature 1 to 6ᴼC), and frozen plasma samples (stored at -80ᴼC) were flown for an adequate amount of time. When the storage temperatures were maintained, no impact on the blood products was observed. The publication concluded by saying “drones have the potential to help millions of people to quickly gain access to blood products”.
With the drone technology in focus, my worry as a laboratory scientist was to find out if the blood samples to be transfused will remain intact when flown in the drone? My concerns were addressed when I sighted a publication mentioning the evaluation Timothy Amukele, an assistant professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, did to check whether bumpy flights would hurt cells or otherwise make biological samples unsuitable for lab tests. It was clear that especially pathological samples remain intact after drone flight.
What is important to note is that, this technology can never be successful in a nation that is not ready to give formulate and implement laws and policies to see to the smooth running of such a technique.
Does the scope of practice defined for health workers support operation as in using drones? Who handles the emergency drugs? Are staff in the facilities to be used for such purposes trained to function?
Many are the questions left unanswered and I hope we will be broad in our consultation before the start of use of drones for delivery of medical services.
We must all be involved!!!!
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