PALGHAR : Maharashtra Additional Chief Secretary Health, Dr Pradeep Vyass, on Saturday launched drone services to deliver Covid-19 vaccines to remote areas of Jawahar taluka in Palghar, Maharashtra.
The service reduced the delivery timing of vaccines from an hour to 10 minutes The experiment, which was successfully carried out on Thursday, is probably the first of its kind in the state, district collector Dr Manik Gursal, who coordinated in the trial, said.
Officials said that normally, it takes several hours to reach the remote village in a hilly forested area of Jawhar, making it out of bounds for the local health workers. "As part of the exercise, a batch of 300 vaccines was transported from Jawhar to Zaap village.