Prescriptions that travel as a code, not as handwriting

A verified doctor issues a script and gets a short code. The patient presents the code at any pharmacy in Nigeria, and the pharmacist opens it and sees who prescribed it before dispensing.

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Dr Adaeze Okonkwo

Verified

MDCN/R/48210

Ikoyi Family Clinic, Lagos

0803 411 8820

Issued

Issued 24 Aug 2026

Expires 23 Sept 2026

Patient

Chiamaka Nwosu

Female, 35 years, born 17 Apr 1991

Address

14 Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi, Lagos

0803 552 7719

Prescribed Items

1
Amoxicillin 500 mg
Capsule
1 capsule, Three times a day, 5 days
Quantity 15
Take after food
2
Codeine phosphate linctus 15 mg per 5 ml
SyrupControlled
5 ml, At night, 3 days
Quantity 60
Measure with the cup provided

Note from the doctor

Return to the clinic if the cough is unchanged after three days.

A script as the pharmacist sees it, drawn by the same component the product uses.

What happens now

Three things a paper prescription cannot do

Script
Handwritten scripts get misread.
Licence
Pharmacists cannot confirm a prescriber is licensed.
Register
Poison registers are still kept in paper books.

How it works

From the consulting room to the counter

Step 1, A doctor issues a script
The doctor picks the patient, adds the items and issues. ScriptRX returns a short code such as RX 7K2M 9QF4 that is good for thirty days.
Step 2, The patient presents the code
At any pharmacy on ScriptRX. Nothing to print, nothing to carry, and the code works from a phone screen or a slip of paper.
Step 3, The pharmacist opens it and dispenses
The script opens with the prescriber name and licence number at the top. The pharmacist records the quantity and batch number, item by item, and can hand over part of a quantity now and the rest later.

Verification

A licence on file before anything is issued

Verified

MDCN/R/48210

Dr Adaeze Okonkwo, Ikoyi Family Clinic, Lagos

An administrator checks the MDCN or PCN number against the practising register and approves the account. Until that is done the badge is not there and the account cannot issue.

What an unapproved doctor sees

The MDCN licence on this account is still waiting on an administrator, so nothing can be issued from it.

The same rule runs on the other side of the counter. A pharmacist whose PCN licence is not approved cannot dispense.

Poison register

Controlled drugs write an entry that stays written

Dispensing a controlled drug asks the pharmacist to confirm the entry first, then writes it. The entry copies the names, the address and the licence number as they stood at that moment, so it does not change later when a record elsewhere changes.

Four entries from a poison register, numbered 47 to 50
Entry	Dispensed	Patient	Doctor licence	Drug	Quantity
47	19 Aug 2026	Emeka Obi	MDCN/R/51937	Pentazocine 30 mg per ml	2
48	21 Aug 2026	Aisha Bello	MDCN/R/48210	Diazepam 5 mg	14
49	24 Aug 2026	Chiamaka Nwosu	MDCN/R/48210	Codeine phosphate linctus 15 mg per 5 ml	60
50	25 Aug 2026	Yusuf Abubakar	MDCN/R/51937	Pentazocine 30 mg per ml	1

Once an entry is written it cannot be edited or deleted, and there is no screen in ScriptRX that offers to do either.

Who it is for

Both sides of the counter

Who	What they do	Side
Hospitals and clinicsDoctors issue under a licence the hospital administrator approves.Issue	Doctors issue under a licence the hospital administrator approves.	Issue
Retail pharmaciesAny pharmacy on ScriptRX can open a code, whoever wrote the script.Dispense	Any pharmacy on ScriptRX can open a code, whoever wrote the script.	Dispense
Independent practitionersA single doctor with an approved MDCN number can issue as well.Issue	A single doctor with an approved MDCN number can issue as well.	Issue

Walk through it with the sample data

The demo runs in the browser with seeded doctors, pharmacists and patients. Switch between them, issue a script, then dispense it at the counter.