The federal government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, has partnered with Zipline, the leading firm in autonomous delivery, to tackle maternal mortality, malnutrition, malaria and other intractable health challenges. This is even as the federal government has disclosed plans to leverage Zipline’s drone delivery service across the country to achieve its targets. This project will build a more resilient logistics system that enables access to high quality, reliable healthcare for a substantial portion of the country’s non-urban population and improves the health system’s ability to respond to disasters and emergencies.
The partnership with Zipline also aimed at creating a sustainable financing framework to attract commitments from global health, economic development, and climate funders to establish autonomous drone infrastructure around the country in strategically determined locations, and to enable the operation of these drone networks through hiring, training and empowerment of local talent. Nigeria’s minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, who disclosed this in a press statement made available to LEADERSHIP, said the new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will dramatically advance the Presidential Initiative for Unlocking the Healthcare Value Chain (PVAC) goals.
“Scaling Zipline’s infrastructure nationwide can digitize, modernize, equalize and raise the quality of healthcare services available to all Nigerians.
