5 teams emerged as the top winners with TRACKMED in the lead in the health supply chain solutions challenge. This challenge worked towards supporting bold innovations that improve access to affordable, quality essential medicines and health supplies for Ugandans.
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The final pitch event took place on July 29th where different innovation teams shared their ideas on how to address health supply chain challenges in partnership with institutional sector actors.
Experts chose TRACKMED, which tracks & traces data for medical supply deliveries from the warehouse to the patient in real-time, by 19-year-old Eric Mujjona to pilot, test, & scale.
The top winners of the Supply Health Challenge were;
- Trackmed – providing real-time data on medical supply deliveries, enabling traceabilityy of essential medicines to the patient.
- Signalytics
- Biogenics
- Drug Dash – a web and mobile system to enable Drug Supply Chain Control Officers to see and understand real time data on stock levels of medicines in health centres.
- Blood Alarm System.
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The Health Supply Chain Solutions Challenge
The Health Supply Chain Solutions Challenge is an initiative of Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Uganda Healthcare Federation and ACODE implemented under the USAID/Uganda Strengthening Supply Chains Systems Activity (SSCS) in conjunction with the United Nations Population Fund (Uganda).
Its main goal was to support innovative solutions that improve access to affordable, quality essential medicines & Health Supplies in Uganda.
Winners from this challenge will receive
• Awards during Uganda’s national health supply chain week
• Technical and financial support of up to USD 50,000 to pilot and implement the innovation
• Advice on solution development, monitoring, evaluation, research, and scale-up
• An internship opportunity (students only)
• Training sessions on supply chain management
This challenge will help to address some of the gaps in the supply of drugs to health centres and eventually to patients. One of the biggest issues faced by National Medical Stores is the issue of tracking medical supplies delivered to health centres which Trackmed will work to solve by enabling traceability of drugs to the patient.
A huge number of people in Uganda have little or no access to drugs due to gaps in the supply chain. This in turn affects patients who end up buying the few available drugs at a high price seeing that they are scarce.
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