A Webportal for Medicine Distribution among Poverty-stricken People
Figure:
Flow diagram of donation process.
Abstract
A noticeable number of people living in extreme
poverty still remain high in Bangladesh. It is becoming challenging for the poor or low-income people to pay for their health
purpose. Thus they suffered from various diseases and as a result
the death rate is increasing day by day. On the other hand, there
are many people who have plenty of leftover medicines even after
finishing those medicines consumption. In this paper, we have
proposed a medicine distribution web portal, named ‘GiveMed’.
The GiveMed is a platform for the donors who want to donate
their unused medicines to the poor or low-income people who
need those medicines. This system will contribute to reduce the
cost for national health services by making the proper use of
unused medicines; and to help the poor or low-income people
to get better health services. The portal was also evaluated with
16 participants (including doctors, donor, NGO personnel and
low-income people) and found that the portal is highly effective,
efficient, satisfiable and useful system.
A noticeable number of people living in extreme poverty still remain high in Bangladesh.
It is becoming challenging for the poor or low-income people to pay for their health purpose.
Thus they suffered from various diseases and as a result the death rate is increasing day by day.
On the other hand, there are many people who have plenty of leftover medicines even after finishing those medicines consumption.
In this paper, we have proposed a medicine distribution web portal, named ‘GiveMed’. The GiveMed is a platform for the donors who want to donate their unused medicines to the poor or low-income people who need those medicines.
This system will contribute to reduce the cost for national health services by making the proper use of unused medicines; and to help the poor or low-income people to get better health services.
The portal was also evaluated with 16 participants (including doctors, donor, NGO personnel and low-income people) and found that the portal is highly effective, efficient, satisfiable and useful system.
@inproceedings{islam2017givemed, title={GiveMed: a webportal for medicine distribution among poverty-stricken people}, author={
Islam, Muhammad Nazrul and Zavin, Ashratuz and Srabanti, Sanjana and Ferdous, Chowdhury Nawrin
and Suha, Sayma Alam and Afroze, Lameya and Shawon, Nafin and Refath, Naznin Sultana
}, booktitle={
2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)
}, pages={294--299}, year={2017}, organization={IEEE}, }
