What is the name of your organization?
Ducit Blue Solutions (A collaboration with DrugStoc)
What is the name of your solution?
Pillometer:Community ABxTrACKA
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Smart data for Smarter Pharmacies: Optimise stock control, reduce waste, and enhance access to quality antibiotics in Nigerian community Pharmacies
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
Nigeria
What type of organization is your solution team?
Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit
Film your elevator pitch.
What specific problem are you solving?
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was responsible for 1.27 million deaths in 2019. In Nigeria, 64,500 deaths were directly attributable to AMR in 2019, with over 263,000 associated deaths. In the health sector, Nigeria’s Drug Resistance Index was 65.9%, far above the 25% threshold, calling for urgent intervention.
The lack of reliable antimicrobial use (AMU) data is a key driver, especially in community settings, with reliance on proxy import data, limiting effective policy making, surveillance and evidence based actions.
Community pharmacies, a first point of care for a lot of Nigerians, often operate without digital systems, leading to stockouts, inefficient inventory management, expired medicines, and unmonitored antibiotic use. This delays treatment, increases misuse and drives patients towards unregulated sources, risking substandard or falsified antibiotics, further fuelling AMR.
Our solution addresses these challenges by digitising antibiotic inventory and use at the community level. Through real-time dashboards, expiry alerts, identification of AWaRE classifications, Pharmacies track availability, reduce waste, and improve stock control. Additionally, tracking patient prescription and disease history enables better stewardship. By bridging data gaps and improving access to quality antibiotics, we provide a scalable, evidence-driven approach to combat AMR, aligning with Nigeria’s National Action Plan and SDG 3.
What is your solution?
It is a human health-focused innovation built around Pillometer, an AI Pharmacy Operating System already in use by community pharmacies in Nigeria. We are innovating for community antibiotic stock management and surveillance as Pillometer: Community ABx TrACKA.
It works by combining cloud-based software with IoT devices to help Pharmacies track antibiotic stock, expiry dates, and real-time demand. It removes the need for manual inventory tracking, which often leads to stockouts or waste. The system uses AI to predict demand based on sales patterns and disease trends, sending automatic restocking alerts. Community Pharmacies can automate procurement of quality-assured antibiotics from DrugStoc’s e-commerce platform, a trusted platform with verified suppliers and cold-chain logistics, mitigating falsified antibiotics access.
Pillometer also helps reduce waste by flagging soon-to-expire stock, which can be discounted or redistributed. It enhances patient care by tracking antibiotic prescriptions and follow-up records, aggregating antibiotic usage data, contributing to national AMR surveillance and decision making. Our solution advances patient experience including through collaboration with HMOs for transformative managed care services. The system works even in low-connectivity areas and uses GIS mapping, including deliveries to underserved communities. Pillometer transforms community Pharmacies into Smarter, proactive hubs for equitable antibiotic access and AMR mitigation.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Our solution serves community pharmacists and their patients, leveraging on presence across 16 states in Nigeria, including underserved and remote areas (due to access and supply chain bottlenecks), at no extra cost, ensuring equitable access, There are expansions underway to more communities.. Pharmacy owners in Nigeria traditionally spend up to 36 hours monthly sourcing medicines from open markets, an inefficient, time-consuming and somewhat risky process. Due to unreliable supply chains, many of these products may be counterfeit or improperly stored, compromising their potency. Manual inventory systems further lead to stockouts, expired medicines, and missed opportunities to track antibiotic use undermining patient care and contributing to antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Pillometer: Community ABx TrACKA transforms this experience. Powered by Pillometer’s AI technology and integrated with Drugstoc’s secure supply chain, it automates procurement, predicts demand, and digitises antibiotic inventory, including using AWaRe classification. This frees pharmacists to spend more time delivering care, and enhancing antibiotic use surveillance.
Pharmacists will be trained to optimise counselling and stewardship, utilising patient data and local AMR trends.
By enhancing supply reliability, reducing waste, and supporting data-driven decision-making, puts community Pharmacists at the frontline for addressing AMR, improving lives and outcomes at the community level.
