The Ghana National Electronic Pharmacy Platform, otherwise known as the e-Pharmacy platform, goes live nationwide today, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has announced.
Ghana’s nationwide e-pharmacy platform is a platform of registered pharmacies, which 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.
Announcing the full operationalisation of the initiative on his Facebook page after a six-month pilot, Dr Bawumia, who spearheaded the e-pharmacy with stakeholders of the pharmaceutical industry, expressed delight at the convenience it will bring to Ghanaians, as well as its expected boost to the pharmaceutical industry.
The e-pharmacy platform joins a list of digitalisation initiatives, which have been implemented over the past six years under the President Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party administration.
Key among them is the digital national identification system (Ghana card), the national digital property address system, mobile money interoperability, universal QR Code, as well as the digitisation of government services at the ports, registrar general, DVLA and passport application.
