​A company with experience in Rwanda plans on expanding.

A company called Zipline plans to begin delivering blood and medicine through drones to rural parts of the United States, the same way it does with remote areas of Rwanda.

Zipline plans to deliver medical supplies to remote and rural communities like Maryland’s Smith Island, Native American reservations in Nevada, and the San Juan islands in Washington. The company chose these three areas as places to start with the hoping the need for efficient deliveries there will lead to quicker FAA approval, which it expects to get in six months.

Zipline’s tiny drones, which the company calls Zips, fly at a little over 60 mph with twin electric motors, and a wingspan of almost eight feet. Earlier this year, the company signed a deal with the Rwandan government to take care of 50 to 150 daily deliveries of blood and emergency medicine to various hospitals and clinics. Notably the drones do not land but parachute their payloads from a low altitude, expediting their trips.

The United States is facing a looming physician shortage. According to a study by the Association of American Medical Colleges, within ten years America will face a shortage between 61,700 and 94,700 physicians. It’s expected that such a shortage would hit rural communities especially hard, given how only a tenth of all physicians in America work in such regions.

“When you look at rural or isolated communities, particularly Native American populations, populations that live on islands, you have serious health outcome inequalities,” says Keller Rinaudo, Zipline’s founder and CEO. “There’s a linear relationship between how far away you live from a city and your expected lifespan. So our hope is that this type of technology can solve those kinds of inequalities.” Drone delivery isn’t just good for Amazon packages, after all.