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Delivering medications by drones

Posted onNovember 27, 2020

Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy partners with AirMatrix to trial medication delivery by automated drones.

COVID-19 has changed the daily workflow of community pharmacies.

As essential services, pharmacies remained open when many other health-care facilities closed or shifted online, creating a surge in demand that overwhelmed many practices, especially in the area of medication delivery….

https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/delivering-medications-drones

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