Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari recently inaugurated the country’s first prototype drone for transporting human organs to facilitate quick transplantation in hospitals.

• With this innovation, it will take much less time to transport the transplanted organs from airport to hospital.  At present, this facility has been started by MGM Healthcare Hospital located in Chennai.
• This drone can be used to carry the organ box up to a distance of 20 km. For this, an agreement has been signed with a city-based drone company.
• This experiment will prove to be a milestone in the direction of seamless transport of organs after transplantation in this service.
• India ranks third in the world after United States and China, with a maximum of 17,000-18,000 solid organ transplants every year. And to defend such circumstances, the human organ transportation drone can be a boon.