Medical kit delivery using Drone: Critical medical infrastructure solution for emergency medical situation

COVID-19 pandemic is a situation where every person is looking for solution towards disease. Once a person tested positive for COVID-19, he/she has to get admitted in hospital or home isolation as per the available resources and guidance by doctors and local authorities. The hospitals are equipped with necessary requirements for patients, but home isolation requires various daily usage medical equipment, medicines and data reporting. Authorities are struggling a lot to supply medical aids and other required necessary items to be delivered at home isolation persons. For such type of pandemic situation, we have proposed a Medical Kit Delivery Drone (MKDD) algorithm to deliver medical aids, lightweight equipment and data reports from hospitals to home isolations. The proposed algorithm is very well simulated in CupCarbon simulator and obtained results are compared with state-of-the-art algorithms like M63P–H7DM, GHSP-D-19-00119, MedART & PMC9451063. We observed that our proposed algorithm achieved the highest date rate in payload delivery time, payload weight, speed & maximum distance covered by various drones.