Drugs could soon be catapulted across Rwanda attached to DRONES

Patients in the most remote regions of the world may soon be casting their eyes skyward for medical supplies. Delivery company UPS is backing a start-up using drug-dropping-drones in Rwanda to transportlife-saving blood supplies and vaccines. Rather than sending supplies by road, firms are looking to the skies to get the medical supplies to where they are needed, with the automated air deliveries 20 times faster than by land. Delivery company UPS is backing a start-up using drones in Rwanda to transport life-saving blood supplies and vaccines. UPS will provide 800,000 ( 554,000) to a partnership including Gavi, agroup providing vaccines to developing countries, and robotics companyZipline International for drone flights in Rwanda startingin August.