Redwing Labs
Drone-based delivery network for healthcare


CURRENT IMPACT
As on January 2023
200
flights made for diagnostic pickups, drugs, vaccines, and supply deliverables.
146
diagnostics samples collected.
1660
vaccine doses are delivered.
1232
units of medical and emergency drugs are delivered

Geographical Focus
- Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha

Potential Impact
- Reach
2.7 Million
lives

CEO & Co-founder, Redwing Labs

SAMRIDH has been instrumental in helping us structure blended finance solutions to boost the adoption of drone-based supply chains for India’s public and private healthcare systems. SAMRIDH’s financial and advisory support enabled us to set up India’s first aerial supply chain network in Arunachal Pradesh. SAMRIDH is also providing impact validation support for the Arunachal network, resulting in a unique study on the significance/influence of drones in India’s healthcare system. With this association, we are able to demonstrate a superior impact over traditional supply chains and scale programs to influence millions of lives in India. Blended finance solutions are vital in boosting the adoption of emerging technologies like drones, and SAMRIDH’s support is helping us deploy sustainable drone networks. We are aiming to reach more than a million people under this collaboration.

Samridh support
SAMRIDH’s financial assistance is enabling Redwing Labs to address challenges in India’s last-mile healthcare supply chain systems. A combination of validation grants and milestone-based funding is used to cover Redwing Labs’ operational expenses. As a “risk investor”, SAMRIDH pays an incentive to Redwing Labs based on defined outcomes. With an objective to inform India’s drone policy for future drone-based healthcare delivery, SAMRIDH is also supporting Redwing Labs by facilitating coordination with state governments and evaluating the impact of its initiatives.
India is the seventh largest country in the world. Its large surface area is characterised by complex and extreme topographical features. Given the geographical variations that range from mountains and jungles to deserts and flood-prone regions, many areas lack access to good roads, infrastructure, and electricity. The current healthcare supply chain systems of the country are not equipped to provide timely and reliable services in remote and hard-to-serve locations in India. Due to late or slow adoption of efficient practices like centralised, real-time inventory management, and regular quality checks, the healthcare services in rural regions and difficult geographies are often found insufficient and dependent on highly priced distant service providers. As a result, health facilities in remote regions find it difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to obtain medical products. This impacts emergency services significantly and leads to many preventable deaths across the country.
Medicines From the sky


Redwing Labs provides a district-wide drone solution, with a fully functional drone hub with 6-8 drones near the District Hospital (DH). The drones deliver over 150 medical products to all the Community Health Centres (CHCs) and Public Health Centres (PHCs) in that district. The solution digitises the indenting system at PHCs and CHCs, thereby reducing the wastage and expiry of medicines through faster turnaround and delivery times. A Redwing drone can cover the distance of approximately 30 kms in under 30 minutes and provide an effortless and on-demand delivery of medicines. The drone can be used to supply medical products, including COVID and routine immunisation vaccines, blood products and samples, essential and emergency medical products in underserved rural, tribal, and geographies where access is a challenge.

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