The press in Ghana on Thursday focuses on the completion of the first drone centre at Omenyo in the Eastern Region of the country.
The Daily Graphic and Ghanaian Times focused on the completion, saying it will help to deliver essential medical supplies to hospitals and health facilities in remote parts of the country.
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, who inaugurated the “The Fly to Save a Life Project” on Wednesday, said essential medicines and vaccines as well as blood would be distributed by drones deployed from the centre.
He said that the aim of the government was to deliver on its promise of providing holistic health care for the people, thereby going in for the modern technology to facilitate healthcare provision.
He announced that a programme has been planned for implementation this year to ensure the digitisation of health information as part of measures to improve on health delivery.
The drones will be operated by Zipline, the San Fransisco based drones manufacturer and logistics services provider to deliver on the average 150 different vaccines, blood products and life saving medications on demand in emergency situations.
The Business and Financial Times, for its part, says although the mobile operating companies have been indulging in mobile money transactions, they were yet to be certified.
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