A Computerized System to Solve Difficulties in Finding Medicines under the Medicine Shortages in Sri Lanka

Due to ongoing financial crisis in Sri Lanka, patients are starting to suffer from medicine shortages at an increasing rate. Patients are having to go to multiple pharmacies to find certain medicines which could result in health complications. Although e-pharmacy platforms provide the functionality to order medicines by uploading the prescription sheet, they do not provide alternatives on where to find the medicines that are not available in the pharmacy. This research introduces a new functionality to provide patients suggestion on where exactly to find missing medicines. This is found through checking the stock availability of the medicine in other pharmacies in sorted order with respect to the delivery location of the patient taken via Google map API to make the process much more efficient and practical. This is achieved by implementing a global identifier for each medicine where all pharmacies keep the records of the medicines in reference to the defined global identifier of that medicine. In addition to that, the system allows patients to view all the pharmacies nearest to their delivery location and give the freedom to place orders to whichever pharmacy they prefer. If a medicine is not available in the pharmacy which the order was placed for, the system will give suggestions to the patient on where exactly to buy the medicine

WERECLAIM: A MERN Stack Solution to Enhance the Online Resale Market

Since the days of trading, used items have been widely used and recently, the marketing of these secondhand goods has received increased attention. Shopping ethically or acting ethically as a consumer has grown in popularity along with the rise in demand for used goods. People now prefer doing business online over the conventional means of satisfying their wants due to the huge advancement of technology. Furthermore, given that there are many who are unemployed and wish to earn money online, this kind of platform for buying and selling old goods is timely to address those needs as well. Making a platform for used goods sales and purchases appears to be an excellent idea in the age of digitization and WERECLAIM was designed to address several issues of purchasing and selling goods in the secondhand market. The purpose of this study is to investigate the major trends of used items buying and selling platforms and to emphasize the contribution of WERECLAIM to the modern used goods, buyers, and sellers. We have identified the major issues and the current needs of a used items trading system and came up with the system WERECLAIM which fulfills the demand of a used items trading platform