Introduce drones in healthcare sector delivery system: Expert
LUCKNOW: Technology can change the healthcare sector delivery system without disturbing the existing manpower, said experts at the two-day global meet ‘Ullas Global Tomaso 175’ organised by IIT Roorkee Alumni Association, Lucknow Chapter that began on Saturday.
“Drone delivery is an answer to the problem of traffic issues. The system can make delivery of medicines, vaccines and lifesaving medical equipment possible in 10 -15 minutes at the time of crisis and also in areas where there are no motorable roads,” said Sanjay Jain, one of the panelists in the session on ‘use of drone technology’ and an IIT Roorkee alumni.
On being asked by Sunil Gupta, an alumni of IIT Roorkee, about possibility of loss of jobs for those who are already in the medicine delivery sector, Jain said, “The existing manpower will not be disturbed as there were many areas where delivery goes slow and drones can work smartly and quickly. It is time to change the health care delivery system.”
Introducing the topic, Gupta said that drone was first made in 1935 and during war it has been used for intelligence input gathering. “Today, drones are entering our everyday life,” he said.
Another panelist Lt Gen Vishwambhar Singh said that drones were first used by army during Kargil war in 1999. “Earlier, airplanes went to seek enemy location but now advanced drones are part of our capability,” he said.
In his welcome address, Anuj Varshney, president, IIT Roorkee Alumni Association, Lucknow Chapter said that today if our institute is considered among the best engineering institutes of the world, it is because we get the best teachers here. Anuj Varshney said that the time has come when whatever the society has given to us as an institution, we should return it in the form of its betterment.
Architect Vipul Varshney felicitated Governor Anandiben Patel.