A North Carolina hospital has begun using drones to fly blood samples from a medical park to the main hospital building for lab testing. The short trips mark the first time the FAA has allowed regular commercial flights of drones carrying products.
Matternet CEO Andreas Raptopoulos walks next to an operator carrying a drone used for delivery of medical specimens after a flight at WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina on March 26, 2019. Matternet and UPS partnered with the hospital to start commercial flights of medical samples across the WakeMed campus.
“This is a turning point, and it’s an historic moment because this is the first FAA-sanctioned use of a for routine revenue-generating flights,” Bala Ganesh, vice president of UPS’ advanced technology group, said in an interview before the announcement. The aim is to cut down on the time it takes to transport the time-sensitive samples typically driven on the ground.
But the North Carolina program could expand to flying miles-long routes between Raleigh-area WakeMed buildings in the coming months, Raptopoulos said. He also said medical specimen flights could start at one or two more hospitals in other cities later in 2019.
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