A very sick 7-year-old boy was recently admitted to a rural hospital in Ghana. He needed a transfusion of O-negative blood — and fast.

Ordinarily, the staff would’ve been hard-pressed to help him in time. But that day, all they had to do was send a WhatsApp message.

About 15 minutes later, a drone appeared in the sky. It parachuted a box containing a package of blood onto the hospital courtyard. The staff immediately used it and were able to save the boy.

“If we hadn’t gotten that, the child would have lost his life,” said Dr. Kobena Wiredu, the medical superintendent of New Tafo Government Hospital in Ghana’s Eastern Region.

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