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 leading 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.
Shares Data silos, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Data silos, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Data silos, Hodgkin lymphoma.
Shares Data silos, Hodgkin lymphoma.