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@famasiafrica now operates in more than 20 Nigerian states, connecting patients, pharmacies, physicians, telemedicine providers, and diagnostics companies on one platform.
What began with a waitlist is now infrastructure other businesses depend on.

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FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT 🧵 (continued)

After the pivot, Famasi stopped being just an app patients used. It became something pharmacies across Nigeria run their business on.

The new system, DispensaryPOS, gives pharmacies one terminal to manage inventory, track sales, and

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Medications they might otherwise forget or mismanage.

The company also received a 50,000 dollar grant from the i3 Africa programme, backed by the Gates Foundation, Sanofi, and MSD, to help scale its infrastructure further.

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So a prescription was never sitting in isolation from the rest of a patient's care.
The pivot was not the plan. It was survival that turned into a better company.

#Founderspotlight #FamasiAfrica #Nigeriahealth #Africahealth #Healthfound

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FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT 🧵 (continued)

@famasiafrica grew fast. Within a short time the company was operating across 15 Nigerian states.
Then logistics nearly broke everything they had built.

Sending medication from Abuja to a customer in another state could take up to five working

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An inventory and point of sale system that could run from a single terminal.
One terminal replacing what used to require a desktop, a card machine, and a separate scanner.

They also started partnering with physicians, telemedicine providers, and diagnostics companies,

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The hard part had not even started yet.

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FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT 🧵 (continued)

Adeola Ayoola had a friend she had known for 13 years, Umar Faruq Akinwunmi. She was a pharmacist. He was a product storyteller.
In 2021 that friendship turned into a company.

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Had even planned to launch.
Nigerians in different parts of the country were telling two founders the same thing. We need this too.

What began as two friends solving a problem they had both seen up close was quickly becoming something much bigger than either of them expected.

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Her company is called Famasi Africa. This is where it started.

#Founderspotlight #FamasiAfrica #AdeolaAyoola #NigeriaHealth #AfricaHealth #Healthfound

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FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT 🧵

Adeola Ayoola trained as a pharmacist because she admired the profession from the time she was a child. She studied at Obafemi Awolowo University and went on to work in hospitals, retail pharmacy, and supply chain.
It was her time at the National Hospital in

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Wholesale, distribution.
Every job added a piece to a solution she had not built yet.

This week HealthFound is telling her story in full.

How a pharmacist who kept watching people fall through the cracks decided to build the infrastructure that would catch them.