2,456 pharmacies now onboarded on national E-Pharmacy platform

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia

An impressive 2456 pharmacies have been onboarded onto the National E-Pharmacy Platform, representing a major milestone for the digital platform and Ghana.

The nationwide platform, otherwise known as e-pharmacy, is a platform of registered pharmacies. It allows the Ghanaian public the ease of uploading and buying prescribed medicines on the platform and getting them delivered to their locations, once they register on the platform with their Ghana card.

The e-pharmacy is part of the government’s agenda to digitise public services, and its full operationalisation was a result of a collaboration between the Office of the Vice President, the Pharmacy Council and the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana.

In 2019, Vice President Bawumia challenged the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana to take steps to ensure that Pharmacy services are digitized through the introduction of a national-scale e-pharmacy platform, the first in Africa.

The platform went live in January this year after it was launched in July 2023 by Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and piloted for about six months.

Ghana's national e-pharmacy platform is the first of its kind in Africa, and with over 2000 pharmacies onboarded, it further expands the number of pharmacies on the digital platform.

HOW IT WORKS

After registering on the e-pharmacy platform with a Ghanacard, any prescription can be uploaded onto the platform via mobile phone through https://www.gnepplatform.com/ (or through a USSD code).

The platform enables subscribers to find out which pharmacies are close to them, and whether they have the medicines they are looking for.

Subscribers are also able to compare prices of medicines across different pharmacies. Using your mobile phone, you are able to order the medicine, pay for it, and have it delivered at home, or your location through a digital address.

The authenticity of drugs is also guaranteed because the Ghana National E-pharmacy Platform is integrated with the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) platform.

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