A live stock-out map for essential chemotherapy drugs
Hospitals in poorer countries often run out of basic, cheap chemotherapy for weeks. A shared live map of stock levels would let buyers and donors act before a child's treatment is interrupted.
Stock-outs of cisplatin, methotrexate, asparaginase, vincristine, and other generic cytotoxics are common in public hospitals across Africa and parts of Asia, and are a major cause of treatment abandonment and cure-rate loss in curable cancers. Consumption data exists in hospital pharmacies but is not shared. A lightweight reporting system (SMS or app) feeding a regional dashboard, with a buffer-stock fund and a pre-negotiated emergency supplier, would turn reactive shortages into managed ones.
- Most of the world has almost no cancer care · Seven in ten cancer deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries, where radiotherapy, pathology, surgery and drugs are scarce.
- Data silos · Records, scans, genomes and outcomes sit in separate systems that cannot talk. Every patient's experience is lost to the next.
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