50 millions. This is the number of drugs destroyed each year by hospitals. To fight against this waste, MaPUI Labs, a Breton start-up, has decided to promote the exchange of expensive drugs arriving at expiration between pharmacies for internal use (PUI).
This good idea was born in the minds of Goulwen Lorcy, computer engineer in Rennes and Antoine Fouéré, pharmacist at the Saint-Malo hospital center. “More and more treatments are very expensive. Until then we had no solution when they were left on our hands after the transfer or the death of a patient. It takes several thousand euros. for certain anticancer drugs, antidotes or orphan drugs “, explains the latter to Parisian.
Medicines delivered within 24 hours
The principle of their collaborative platform is simple: on the MaPUi website, hospital pharmacies can make drugs that they no longer need in a secure way, so that others can reserve them. The drugs are then sent to the recipient within 24 hours via Chronopost Santé. Launched in January 2016, this concept is already proving a great success: around one hundred hospitals now call on the services of MaPUI Labs, for a monthly subscription of between 1,000 and 15,000 euros. “It’s a win-win. We reduce waste and hospitals save money,” said Goulwen Lorcy.
The founders of MaPUI Labs do not intend to stop there: they are already trying to raise funds for their new project, called Hospiville, whose objective is to coordinate city pharmacies and hospitals around the drug management of patients.
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