Bawumia launches E-pharmacy digital platform today
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, will today, December 22, 2021, launch the E-pharmacy digital platform in Accra.
The E-pharmacy digital platform initiative is to have the nation’s pharmacies converge on platform and also help in the promotion of competitive pricing and a reduction in the country’s drug abuse rate.
It is also expected to reduce the sale of fake drugs to unsuspecting members of the public.
The Vice President, has noted that the digitization of pharmacies is to address the difficulties faced by Ghanaians when looking for medicines to buy from pharmacies.
Through a mobile phone, as well as mobile money interoperability and the universal QR Code services, the Ghanaian public will be able to enter their prescriptions into the digital platform, select the pharmacy of their choice, pay for their medicines and have them delivered to their homes comfortably, without having to move around from one pharmacy to the other.
As part of the government’s digitization drive, Dr. Bawumia, in 2019, challenged the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana to digitize the operations of pharmacies in the country.
Following the directive, the Pharmacy Council worked in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President to ensure the successful realisation of the e-pharmacy.
This initiative will also help reduce long queues at hospital pharmacies and fast tract medicine administration process at hospitals and commercial pharmacies. It will also save time and make medicine easily accessible.
The launch of the platform is also happening shortly after the recent digital economy public lecture at Ashesi University, where the Vice President revealed that steps had been taken to digitize the operations of pharmacies in the country.
The realisation of this vision, is the latest hallmark in the government’s digitization drive which has seen the digitization of many government sectors and services.
