PharmaTrust

PharmaTrust

The cure for Counterfeit Drugs.

Created on 7th May 2023

PharmaTrust

PharmaTrust

The cure for Counterfeit Drugs.

The problem PharmaTrust solves

The cure for Counterfeit Drugs" refers to a solution that helps to prevent the distribution of counterfeit drugs. Counterfeit drugs are a significant problem globally, leading to serious health consequences, loss of life, and financial losses. Current tracking and tracing of drugs are not entirely effective, and counterfeit drugs can easily enter the supply chain undetected. There is a need for a secure, transparent, and tamper-proof system that can track drugs' manufacturing, distribution, and consumption in real-time to prevent counterfeit drugs from entering the supply chain and ensure patient safety. Blockchain technology provides a promising solution to this problem, and thus this project proposes the use of blockchain to develop a drug documenting system to reduce counterfeit drugs prevalence in the pharmaceutical supply chain.

The current pharma supply chain poses a threat of drugs being produced by illegal stakeholders(Raw-material Suppliers, Manufacturers, Distributors, retailers). In the current scenario, the customer is not fully able to view the track of medicine and verify its genuinity. In this project, we ensure transparency by ensuring that anyone whether in the blockchain network or not is able to view the track of medicines(with the help of QRCode).

In this project, we make sure that only the legally verified/authorized stakeholders will be able to enter the details of the medicine into this network. If however there is an attempt by an outside(illegal) organization to enter/update the details in this network then this will be shown as an alert and also the transaction cannot take place unless they are a part of the blockchain network. The suppliers are also able to backtrack and inform the other stakeholders if there is any shortage of raw materials to produce certain medicines.

This will be helpful in the chain as the other stakeholders can opt for alternative medicines and fulfill the people's needs.

Challenges we ran into

-Time Limitation:
We have a limited amount of time to implement the additional features in our project

-deploying smart contracts over polygon testnets:
As it was our first time implementing the polygon testnet we found it a little difficult to deploy the contracts and modify them.

-Implementing the suggestions of judges:
When we initially received suggestions from the judges and mentors for new features, it presented us with a significant challenge. However, we are delighted to announce that we have successfully implemented their suggestions.

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