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How is Tech Eagle, an Indian drone startup, assisting in the removal of connectivity barriers

• ByStartupStory     |    January 22, 2022

The Indian healthcare sector, which is growing at an exponential rate, bears the brunt of the country’s 1.3 billion population. 70% of the population lives in rural areas, where only 3% of the country’s doctors live. Large swaths of the rural population reside in hilly and inaccessible places with no access to even primary or basic healthcare, despite the availability of facilities.

In addition to the chronic lack of access to crucial healthcare supplies, the logistics industry faces its own set of challenges. Healthcare gaps are developing in hard-to-reach places due to bad road conditions, an insufficient supply chain, and poor product visibility and traceability. TechEagle, India’s pioneer and leading maker of long-range, high-speed, heavy payload delivery drone solutions, is eliminating connectivity constraints and delays in access to vital healthcare supplies and services in underserved areas by developing an on-demand Drone logistics airline.

Today, transportation is regarded as one of the most significant impediments to healthcare access. On the one hand, telemedicine is critical in linking doctors with patients who are located far away. However, due to sluggish and inefficient ground logistics, concerns such as sample collection for diagnosis and medicine/vaccine/blood supply at the appropriate time remain unresolved.

Given the challenges, TechEagle uses on-demand drone delivery to gather test samples and quickly send them to path labs. The startup reduces the turnaround time from 3-5 days to 6-7 hours, improving the logistics network in the process. It also provides timely results and diagnoses, allowing doctors to make significant progress and save innumerable lives that would otherwise be lost due to delays.

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