GiveMed: A webportal for medicine distribution among poverty-stricken people

A noticeable number of people living in extreme poverty still remain high in Bangladesh. It is becoming challenging for the poor or low-income people to pay for their health purpose. Thus they suffered from various diseases and as a result the death rate is increasing day by day. On the other hand, there are many people who have plenty of leftover medicines even after finishing those medicines consumption. In this paper, we have proposed a medicine distribution web portal, named ‘GiveMed’. The GiveMed is a platform for the donors who want to donate their unused medicines to the poor or low-income people who need those medicines. This system will contribute to reduce the cost for national health services by making the proper use of unused medicines; and to help the poor or low-income people to get better health services. The portal was also evaluated with 16 participants (including doctors, donor, NGO personnel and low-income people) and found that the portal is highly effective, efficient, satisfiable and useful system.