Makueni breaks new grounds
Wote,
Makueni County
Thursday
MAKUENI County is breaking new grounds of delivering emergency drugs via drones.
It is an unchartered territory even for the national government. This will be made possible through a partnership between the County Government of Makueni and Narma Incl, a Korean Aerospace Research Institute that develops state of the art delivery drones and services. 
The result will be that Health facilities in Makueni will soon receive essential and emergency medical supplies through aerospace.
Eng. Suho Jung, the organization's Projects Manager noted that the partnership seeks to improve on the timelines of delivering medical supplies especially those listed as emergency drugs such as anti - venom vaccines, anti - rabbis, blood among others via drone services.
Makueni Deputy governor Ms. Lucy Mulili,, Health Minister Paul Musila Chief Officers- Stephen Ndolo (Health) and Japheth Kiminza (Environment, Natural Resources, Mining and Climate Change hosted officials from the company on Wednesday where they talked on the possible areas of collaboration.
The officials from Narma Incl are in Makueni for a recce visit and to acquaint themselves with the county's topography before flying drones in the county.
Dr. Stan Kivai, the Chairman of Makueni Climate Change Fund Board said that they engaged the Korea International Corporation Agency (KOICA) through their resource mobilization aspect to bring the services to Makueni adding that the drones would considerably reduce the energy consumption.
Dr.Kivai was accompanied by Ms. Angeline Katunga, a member of the Climate Change Fund Board.
-Story By Governor's Press Service
