Taipei Times
Date: Apr 24, 2019
By: Lee I-chia  /  Staff reporter

Snake antivenom was on Friday last week successfully delivered to a remote mountainous area of Chiayi County, in a stable condition, by aerial drone, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday.

The agency said that it has been working with the Ministry of Transportation and Communications on a program to test using uncrewed aerial vehicles to provide logistics services in the county’s remote regions.

There are nine health rooms affiliated with Alishan Township’s (阿里山) Public Health Center, but only six are stocked with snake antivenom, as it is costly to produce and store, CDC physician Liu Yu-lun (劉宇倫) said.

It is only 7km between the Lichia (里佳) health room, where no antivenom is stored, and the center, but it takes about an hour to drive a rough and winding road to transport medical items to Lichia, he said.    [FULL  STORY]