Since their surge in popularity in recent years, drones have been heralded as the future of transportation, carrying everything from packages to people. But they could also revolutionize the medical field as well by being used to transport human organs for transplants.
Currently organs are transplanted across the country either by commercial aircraft or expensive charter flights. But with drones, individual organs could be transported directly from the hospital where the body part has been removed to the hospital where the patient is awaiting the organ to be implanted …
https://www.newsweek.com/drone-delivery-organ-kidney-transplant-maryland-uav-1257286
Newsweek | Dec. 13, 2018
