An innovative digital locker means that thousands of public health patients won’t wait for hours in a clinic queue to collect medication
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.A huge setback for technology entrepreneur Neo Hutiri, who contracted tuberculosis after quitting his corporate job, turned out to be the catalyst that resulted in his global award-winning business in the health sector.
The platform works like an ATM post office, similar to cardless instant money transfers. The lockers are packed with medicine, the patient receives a one-time personal identification number in a text message, enters the PIN into the locker and the medicine is dispensed. “I kept on complaining to my nurse, and ultimately my nurse asked me, ‘What solution do you guys come up with?’ My observation was that I was spending less than two minutes with the nurse inside but I was spending four hours outside and I thought, ‘No, this is not efficient.
“We had looked at what was happening in the online delivery market and had seen that lockers were working for parcel delivery,” he said.
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