Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has released the primary national e-Pharmacy in Africa, the National Electronic Pharmacy Platform (NEPP).
The new platform, a brand new digitisation degree to permit Ghanaians can order pharmaceutical merchandise from the consolation in their houses, is the contemporary step withinside the nation's digitisation pressure spearheaded through the Vice President.
Dr Bawumia released NEPP at a application held on the Alisa Hotel in Accra these days, Monday, July 18, 2022.
Speaking on the release, the Vice President stated the release of NEPP is to assist over 30 million Ghanaians have get entry to to prescribed drug treatments in a greater convenient, fee-powerful and nice confident manner, scaling over counterfeit and inferior drug treatments.
A Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
Ghana has been present process a digitisation attempt at warp pace for the reason that modern-day authorities took over strength in 2017.
The worldwide e-Pharmacy marketplace is valued at $52bn as compared to the $12.6bn of the worldwide cocoa marketplace.
Vice President Bawumia mentioned a want for Ghana to faucet into this type of marketplace and driven for the status quo of this type of platform.
In 2019, Dr Bawumia advised the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana to provide you with a platform to digitise the shopping for of medicine in Ghana and faucet into this multi-billion greenback marketplace.
The National Electronic Pharmacy Platform (NEPP) is the end result of that challenge - after sizable collaboration among the Pharmaceutical Society and the Vice President’s office.
Cheaper, Cost-green and Reliable Drugs for All Ghanaians
The NEPP is to cope with a want of many Ghanaians who may want tablets however aren't in a role or are unwilling to step out in their houses to get the wanted tablets.
However, shopping for on-line comes with inherent dangers which could best be removed through a countrywide platform that's valid and reliable.
“The creation of the National e-Pharmacy Platform for brief NEPP is supposed to securely and securely make to be had drug treatments, lessen the weight of fee and store time,” Bawumia stated.
Pharmacies throughout the u . s . are required to join up and be a part of the platform. Only authenticated pharmacies could be allowed to dispense tablets thru NEPP, with every order scrutinised through a crew of expert pharmacists.
“The operationalization of the platform is such that each drug request entered into the gadget is managed through a crew of expert registered pharmacists who primarily based totally on medicinal drug approval and availability, dispense the medicine to the affected person in a sincere manner,” Dr. Bawumia added.
Such guardrails and safeguards could make sure sufferers get precisely the medicine they require to satisfy their fitness needs.
Currently, there are a few unscrupulous pharmacies withinside the gadget that would promote the incorrect or unlicensed medicinal drugs out of a want for earnings over human life.
Any unfortunate Ghanaian who offers with this type of pharmacy is at principal hazard of fitness issues compounded through taking unapproved tablets.
Such unscrupulous people may also charge gouge customers through promoting tablets at inflated prices.
The use of the NEPP is designed to precisely weed out such entities because of the safeguards in place.
A twenty first Century Economy
Ghana maintains to make strides ahead into the digitisation generation via the tireless efforts of Dr Bawumia notwithstanding the ongoing mockery of the naysayers.
The destiny beckons and digitisation is the manner ahead whether or not we need to confess it or not.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, because the Veep places it, is upon us and Ghana is striving tough to be at the vanguard of it.
“Ultimately, we need to all consider which you can't remodel an economic system with simply bricks and mortar. You can best remodel an economic system with ideas, structures and institutions.
“I am consequently very excited to be right here these days to release some other principal innovation in Ghana’s digitalization journey; Ghana’s National Electronic Pharmacy Platform. This is a extremely good day for Ghana and we must all be justifiably very proud
“...Ghana is the primary u . s . in Africa and one in every of only some withinside the global to release a countrywide-scale digital pharmacy platform with all licenced pharmacies required to be part of it and related to the FDA,” Dr Bawumia emphasized as he formally released NEPP.
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