We are opening up a whole new door 
and possibility of access to medications
to the people living in the farthest areas 
of this country.
I'm Daniel Marfo and I lead Zipline's efforts and operations in Ghana.
So when we receive a phone call to save a life,
our operators in the fulfillment center
pick up this call
and in under 3 minutes, they pick up the product
and give it to our flight operators
who make sure that that package is committed to one of our drones
and is placed on our launcher
and leaves our distribution center.
There was a woman returning to her 
farm who was bitten by a snake.
It was late in the evening at about 5 pm 
and she was rushed to the nearest health center
and they had just run out of anti-snake venom.
It takes you by road 7 hours to get there
and they placed the call to us
and in about 55 minutes she had her anti-snake venom
and 2 hours later we were told she is well enough to be sent home.
In the past, her chances would have just been, "let's hope she survives the night."
But with this technology 
she has been saved and has been able to 
continue providing food for her family. 
The mission we are on is to ensure 
that nobody
regardless of your location  
is left out when it comes to receiving life-saving medicine
So in the past 3 months that we have been operating
we have already done 700 life-saving deliveries
and we are not yet even at 25% capacity.
Our entire operations are run by 
very young energetic Ghanaian engineers
and healthcare professionals
and this is building
human capacity within the country.
We are at a point where we are working with 
pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis
to see how we can make sure that 
hundreds of thousands of people
across not just Ghana
but the rest of Africa
the third world can get access to their medicines
when they actually do need them. 
