2022-2025

DRONES FOR HEALTH

2022-2025

VillageReach

VillageReach works to transform healthcare delivery by ensuring lifesaving vaccines, medicines and other essential health supplies reach the people who need them most. We funded VillageReach’s Drones for Health programme, whose mission was to overcome drug stock-outs and improve access to lab testing through drone pick-up/delivery in remote health facilities in Malawi, Mozambique, and DRC.

www.villagereach.org

CHALLENGE

In Malawi, Mozambique and DRC, difficult terrain, flooding during the rainy seasons and limited transportation infrastructure are barriers to drug supply chain management and lab testing.

ACTION

VillageReach ’s (VR) Drones for Health programme (D4H) used drones to leap-frog ground transportation barriers - delivering lifesaving vaccines and medicines to health facilities and collecting laboratory samples in remote communities.

IMPACT

139

health facilities served

6411 deliveries in total

rural health facilities supported in Malawi

Drones made 4,003 deliveries (drugs and transport of lab samples)

health facilities supported in DRC

1,520 drone deliveries (vaccines, lab samples, essential medicines..)

health facilities supported in Mozambique

888 deliveries (D4H roll-out postponed due to budget shortfall)