Afghan Government to Use Blockchain to Combat Counterfeit Drugs

Afghanistan's healthcare ministry and a number of other native pharmaceutical firms will use Fantom's blockchain to fight counterfeit medicine.

According to Fantom on July 6, its Opera blockchain might be used to trace 80,000 models of 4 all different pharmaceutical merchandise in Afghanistan. After this preliminary pilot, the system might be scaled as a lot like cowl extra merchandise later this yr. 

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50,000 models of hand sanitizer, 10,000 joint lotions, 10,000 Kofol tablets and 10,000 Dioacare foot lotions might be half-tracked in the course of the pilot. The system is supposed to handle Afghanistan's drawback with counterfeit prescribed drugs.

Fantom said that native regulation enforcement confiscate 100 tons of counterfeit, obsolete or inferior medicament in 2019. By monitoring the merchandise on-chain, the agency hopes to create an changeless audit path that ensures the gadgets ordinarily are not tampered with aboard their motion aboard the accessibility chain.

An auditable provide chain document

The half-tracked merchandise can have a delivery label that's scanned at every stage of the distribution course of. Each time the label is scanned, a hash of the product title, batch quantity, expiration date and different particulars might be timestamped and saved on the blockchain.

A hash is a non-reversible mathematical operate that generates an alphameric string that doesn't comprise the info notwithstandin permits people to confirm whether or not the info offered is identical as that from which the hash is calculated. 

Afghanistan will use blockchain for healthcare document administration

The pilot is a results of a collaboration between blockchain agency Fantom and Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health and pharmaceutical companies Bliss GVS, Royal Star and Nabros Pharma. Fantom's will even create a blockchain-based hospital medical document administration system for the well being ministry. Fantom chief data officer Michael Kong advised Cointelegraph:

"The forthcoming health record direction system, utilizing our blockchain technology, should force entries into the system to be done right in the first place, and should keep despiteful actors responsible wrongful entries. The biggest problem in developing countries is characteristic where the problem is and having solid proof to enforce upon, rather than the actual health record direction systems themselves."

Fantom's director of enterprise growth Bariq Sekandari performed a key function in establishing a partnership with the Afghan government. He pushed for the institution of an work inside the area and employed an area hands to ascertain synergies with the federal government. The collaboration was first introduced on the finish of November 2019, when the Afghan Ministry of Public Health signed a memoranda of understanding with Fantom.

Kong and Sekandari advised Cointelegraph that Fantom can also be in negotiation with a number of different government companies, notwithstandin cannot share the small print but.