Concept visualization
Healthcare logistics · British Columbia
Developing on-demand drone delivery for rural and remote communities.
The problem
A prescription can be written locally.
Getting it filled can mean hours on the road — or finding someone else to make the trip.
MILKRUN flies straight to your community.
The payload
Antibiotics, inhalers and other everyday prescriptions, delivered on demand.
Time-sensitive specimens on the return flight.
Medication out. Samples back.
The run
The prescription is dispensed, labelled and sealed.
A long-range VTOL carries the package to a designated community site.
The package is removed, recorded and secured.
Locally.
Pilot flights subject to route-specific aviation, healthcare and community approvals.
Operated locally
As the network grows, local training could extend into RPAS operations and aviation roles.
Precedent
Drone Transport Initiative · UBC Faculty of Medicine
flights completed
believe drone transport can improve health access
Phase I, Stellat’en First Nation and the Village of Fraser Lake, October 2021 – October 2022. Survey figure from 31 community respondents.
Partner
We’re building the first pilot with partners across:
British Columbia, Canada