On the global healthcare index, Nigeria’s healthcare ranks as one of the five worst in the world. The health industry is in such dire straits that 40,000 of the 75,000 registered Nigerian health practitioners now work overseas.
In the last decade alone, Nigeria has witnessed outbreaks of infectious diseases like cholera, meningitis, and monkeypox. In 2018, there were six different outbreaks of communicable diseases, primarily in rural areas.
When these outbreaks occur, the country’s medical infrastructure is unable to manage—with the notable exception of the handling of the Ebola crisis in 2014.
In June 2017, Madam Rose, a staff of Kaltungo General Hospital, Gombe, told All Africa News that she watched a pregnant woman named Linda die because the hospital did not have any blood. “All she needed to survive was a few pints of blood but there was no blood available in the hospital’s blood bank. So, she was left on the delivery couch just as helpless as the doctor who wanted to help but couldn’t.”
Nigeria lacks sufficient blood bank facilities, so accident victims and pregnant women who need transfusions often do not get them. “Linda’s bleeding didn’t stop, and it became rather profuse. The hospital’s blood bank was not functional and she died of a cardiac arrest following excessive bleeding,” said Madame Rose.
Linda’s case is not unique, and Gombe State is not the only afflicted. Nigerians need at least 1.8 million units of blood per year, but only 66,000 units are available.
No surprise then that even our president seeks medical help outside the country.
But as the sector struggles to cater to the health needs of nearly 200 million people, an innovative technology scene has birthed a cluster of start-ups focused on combating challenges in Nigeria’s health sector.
Preskriber offers an outstanding digital solution to some of the challenges in health care system in Nigeria.
Preskriber is an end to end prescription management tool with built in features to support Doctors, Hospitals, Pharmacies, Pharmacist and Patients. Some of its features amongst others are:
- Enhances and supports hospital management including patient privacy
- Electronic Prescribing, prescription processing & authentication through unique prescription code
- Enabling online renewal/refill of prescription with medical practitioner
- Drug Database
- Inventory Management for retail and wholesale pharmacies
- Provides drug information to patients for easy location of authentic pharmacies
- Supports HMOs etc
Preskriber is a FREE User friendly and patient-centric, digital medical prescription management tool that enables a safe, smart and effective medical prescription process while enhancing the capacities of doctors, Pharmacists, Pharmaceutical businesses, Regulators and the society at large.
Imagine the complexity around every day social and health care challenges such as;
- Effective and efficient prescription records for patients
- Confidential and professional prescription process
- Prescription refill/renewal without having to re-visit the doctor's
- Authentication of drugs and other information about the drug
- Looking for genuine medicines/drugs at affordable prices from certified pharmacies
- Drug inventory management
Preskriber systematically solves the fundamental challenges that we face in our healthcare system, from medical prescription to drug management and control.
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