As a part of the Smart City Project, the Coimbatore Smart City Limited (CSCL) has planned to launch a website and a mobile app "Smart Medicine Bank" to collect unused medicines from the public and distribute them medicines to the needy.
Voluntary Returning of Surplus medicines to Smart Medicine Bank is an environmental friendly solution to minimize risk to our environment and for subsidizing our health delivery system for the needy Poor.
In any waste management program, 3R (Reduce-Reuse-Recycle) is an essential part. If a system could be designed to collect the left over medicine and redistribute them to the needy, it will serve the dual purpose of both disposal of left over and satisfying the needs of needy.
Inspired by the initiative of an individual named Omkar from New Delhi, who started collecting left over medicines from the citizens and distribute unused medicines to poor needy patients, charitable hospitals, NGOs and clinics. Omkar is now well known as "Medicine Baba" who runs a website (http://www.medicinebaba.in) with the tagline “Mobile medicine bank for poor patients”.
Echoing the above model, as part of Smart City Programme-Health Initiative, it is proposed to customize and manage disposal of left-over medicines and redistribute them to poor needy personal.
The unused medicines from the people can be sourced through voluntary Service for collection, promotion of the concept through media and awareness programs, hosting of Drop Box, using services of rental service aggregators like OLA, Jugnoo and Uber, roping the services of NGOs like Lions Club, Rotary Club, RAAC and collection through website and mobile app development.
Under the supervision of a qualified pharmacist, the medicines so collected shall be sorted by generic name and expiry date by volunteers drawn for the purpose. The sorted medicines shall be stacked and the information on medicine availability shall be timely updated in the database accordingly.
Undoubtedly, the medicines so collected will immensely benefit people who are from economically-weaker sections of the society and also ensure safe disposal of unused medicines which is presently dumped along with other wastes.
CSCL has requested the people to share their ideas and feedback of this initiative "Smart Medicine Bank" by mail to [email protected].
For any further clarification, the citizens can also contact
Er. P. Gopalakrishnan, M.E., Urban Infrastructure Expert, PMC,
Coimbatore Smart City Limited, 2nd Floor,
JNNURM Building Coimbatore City Municipal Office Campus,
Coimbatore - 641001
Mobile: 94430-25406.
Voluntary Returning of Surplus medicines to Smart Medicine Bank is an environmental friendly solution to minimize risk to our environment and for subsidizing our health delivery system for the needy Poor.
In any waste management program, 3R (Reduce-Reuse-Recycle) is an essential part. If a system could be designed to collect the left over medicine and redistribute them to the needy, it will serve the dual purpose of both disposal of left over and satisfying the needs of needy.
Inspired by the initiative of an individual named Omkar from New Delhi, who started collecting left over medicines from the citizens and distribute unused medicines to poor needy patients, charitable hospitals, NGOs and clinics. Omkar is now well known as "Medicine Baba" who runs a website (http://www.medicinebaba.in) with the tagline “Mobile medicine bank for poor patients”.
Echoing the above model, as part of Smart City Programme-Health Initiative, it is proposed to customize and manage disposal of left-over medicines and redistribute them to poor needy personal.
The unused medicines from the people can be sourced through voluntary Service for collection, promotion of the concept through media and awareness programs, hosting of Drop Box, using services of rental service aggregators like OLA, Jugnoo and Uber, roping the services of NGOs like Lions Club, Rotary Club, RAAC and collection through website and mobile app development.
Under the supervision of a qualified pharmacist, the medicines so collected shall be sorted by generic name and expiry date by volunteers drawn for the purpose. The sorted medicines shall be stacked and the information on medicine availability shall be timely updated in the database accordingly.
Undoubtedly, the medicines so collected will immensely benefit people who are from economically-weaker sections of the society and also ensure safe disposal of unused medicines which is presently dumped along with other wastes.
CSCL has requested the people to share their ideas and feedback of this initiative "Smart Medicine Bank" by mail to [email protected].
For any further clarification, the citizens can also contact
Er. P. Gopalakrishnan, M.E., Urban Infrastructure Expert, PMC,
Coimbatore Smart City Limited, 2nd Floor,
JNNURM Building Coimbatore City Municipal Office Campus,
Coimbatore - 641001
Mobile: 94430-25406.