http://www.techradar.com/news/drone-sets-new-distance-record-for-delivery-of-medical-supplies

From military strikes to aerial photography, there are a lot of applications for drone technology. But the one that gets a lot of humanitarian groups interested is delivery of medical supplies over terrain that would normally be difficult to traverse.

“Drones can operate where there are no roads, and overcome conditions that disable wheeled vehicles, traffic and other logistical inefficiencies that are the enemy of improved, timely patient diagnoses and care,” said Timothy Amukele, assistant professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.