www.napteker.com is an African online systematic pharmaceutical directory that provides education and information to its users on important issues pertaining to drugs in Africa, such as dosage, drug & food interaction and side effect etc. Pharmacists would be ready 24/7 to respond to users’ queries within 24 hours. The uniqueness of this directory is :
• Information classified by countries
• Free
of charge
• Focusing only on Africa ; country by country
• An interactive, user-friendly platform We have now 48 countries and we have started with 39 African countries to know Algeria, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Congo Brazzaville, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, DRC, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Uganda, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Soudan, South Africa, Tanzania, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe. This platform will be developed in 6 phases :
Phase one : Listing all drugs country per country
Phase two : Create details about each drug i.e. dosage, drug and food interaction and side effect of every drug. Phase three : Build an IVR system in every country with local language and other official used languages used in the country. For those who do not use smartphones, who may not have internet access or with lower level of literacy, an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) will be developed locally in close collaboration with ministries of health of respective countries. Phase Four : Pharmacists to be available 24/7 to respond to the inquiries of the internet users and android app users. Phase Five : organize an international conference/symposium that will host individuals, corporates, organizations, institutions, etc. involved in health sector to tackle together health issues on African continent. Phase six : create a Pan African Institute that provides all health basic information to all Africans.
