Figure 3: Portable Health Clinic (PHC) system operational procedure.
drone-landing zone, then the triage system classifies the case and if it
is infected then the local clinic is informed for further investigation
where the general hospital assistance might be needed, and the patient
may be advised to take some medicine off the drone. When the swarm is
done with one group of houses, it moves to another and the same
procedure is repeated till the whole area is scanned then it flies back
to the BS.
The Roles and Responsibilities of the proposed PHC System
Units
The roles and responsibilities of the proposed PHC system units are
distributed hierarchically for the ease of management and scalability
and are described below: