Andrew was seven. Bright-eyed, obsessed with cartoons, and the kind of child who could make you laugh in the middle of a storm. One rainy Tuesday afternoon in Enugu, he came home from school tired and burning with fever. His mother, worried but not alarmed, rushed him to the nearest pharmacy and bought what the pharmacist assured her were “top quality” antimalarials.
They followed the prescription. They waited. But Andrew didn’t get better.
By day two, he was vomiting. By day three, he couldn’t speak. By day four, he was in the emergency ward.
When a Fever Has Accomplices:
Andrew almost didn’t make it.
His bloodwork showed he had been given falsified medication, counterfeit antimalarials with little or no active ingredients. He was a statistic that nearly made it to the World Health Organization’s chilling reports: over 500,000 children under five die annually from malaria in Africa, many due to fake or substandard treatments. Nigeria, in particular, remains a hotspot for counterfeit drugs, with up to 1 in every 7 medicines sold in circulation being fake.
And it isn’t just malaria. Antibiotics, pain relievers, blood pressure meds — the threat is silent, but the consequences are brutal.
Andrew was lucky. A fast-thinking doctor recognized the signs and started him on verified injectable treatment immediately. His fever broke the next day. But not every child is as lucky. Not every mother knows who to trust.
The RxAll Difference.
This is why RxAll built RxScanner: a portable, AI-powered device that instantly verifies the chemical composition and authenticity of any drug. With RxScanner, pharmacists and doctors don’t have to rely on appearance or supplier reputation. They get certainty. They get science.
If that first pharmacist had scanned Andrew’s drugs, maybe he would never have needed the ER.
RxScanner is already empowering pharmacies and hospitals across Nigeria to fight back against counterfeit drugs, one scan, one patient, one life at a time.
Because no child should gamble with medicine, and safety should never be a maybe. Andrew deserves a country where healing is never a risk.
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