I am a strong proponent of technology, and support innovative usage of technology to make our life easy. Do check out my earlier posts (Healthcare Apps—Maintain Your Health and Usage of ICT in Food Security) to see the positive impact of tech in our life. Here’s another - soon we will be using our cell phone to protect ourselves from spurious drugs!
As you must be aware spurious drug business is a big business in some parts of the country and is responsible for the deaths and dangerous after effects. The Indian government is planning to make it mandatory for the pharmaceutical companies in India to install an SMS-activated system to counter fake drugs in the market. As per the plan, every medicine strip will have a unique number which the buyers can SMS to the customer care for verification. This will definitely give a big blow to fake pharma companies and help the consumers.
I am sure we will soon see more such innovative uses of technology in India for the benefits of the general masses.
Do feel free to share with me if you have seen any such interesting usage of technology!
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