Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has stated that the Ghana National Electronic Pharmacy Platform, also known as the e-Pharmacy platform, has fully taken off across the country.
Ghana’s nationwide e-pharmacy platform is a network of registered pharmacies that allows the Ghanaian public to easily upload and purchase prescribed medicines on the platform and have them delivered to their homes after registering with their Ghana card.
Over a six-month period, it was tested.
With the National Electronic Pharmacy Platform, Ghana will be part of the new pharmaceutical digital economy to boost pharmaceutical sales and generate revenue. GNEPP will also result in less “Wahala” for Ghanaians in the pharmacy space,” wrote Bawumia on Facebook.
In the health sector, the e-pharmacy platform complements the successful medical drone delivery service, which delivers essential drugs to remote parts of the country in real time via drones.
The e-pharmacy platform is the latest in a series of digitisation initiatives launched by the Akufo-Addo administration over the last six years.
Other initiatives include the digital national identification system (Ghana card), the national digital property address system, mobile money interoperability, the universal QR code, and the digitization of government services at ports such as registrar general, DVLA, passport application, and many more.
