New Drone Service to Deliver Life-Saving Medications in Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk Region

Starting in April 2025, medicine will be delivered to residents of the Tlumach community in Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk region via drones. This will be the first such initiative in the region and the third in Ukraine.

This was reported by Suspilne, citing Oksana Melnyk, the director of the Tlumach Primary Healthcare Center.

“This is a humanitarian project that allows people to receive medications at their place of residence, while also saving time, physical effort, and money,” said Oksana Melnyk.

According to her, the community has been working on implementing this idea for several years. It will allow medications to be delivered via fast, electric, and silent drones.

“The first community to join the project was Bucha in the Kyiv region, where this service is already actively used. There is also work being done in the Rivne region to implement a similar initiative,” Oksana Melnyk added.

According to the news outlet, the project is being implemented with financial support from American charities. Medication delivery can be ordered through the government program “Affordable Medicines” via a family doctor.

“We have visited all the settlements and identified the locations where we will deliver the medications,” Melnyk explained.

The medications delivered by drones will be received by medical staff.

“All orders are individual, for a single patient. They will be signed and labeled. Accordingly, the nurse who receives the order in the village will deliver them to the addresses, or the patient will come to the clinic to pick them up,” said Melnyk.

Doctors at the Tlumach Primary Healthcare Center will cooperate with the project on a volunteer basis.

“These are our nurses and doctors, with whom we sign a memorandum of cooperation. The service is completely charitable and free of charge. Neither we nor the patients will pay for this delivery,” Melnyk added.

Previously, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced an expansion of its medical treatment program for wounded Ukrainian service members, adding another hospital to the initiative.