Prescription: Why Do You Need Prescription For Your Medicines

Background The two main classes of drugs are: (1) non-prescription drugs and (2) prescription drugs. The non-prescription drugs are commonly called over-the-counter, or OTC drugs, and can be bought without a prescription. Prescription drugs (or legend drugs) are drugs that require a prescription because they are considered to be potentially harmful if not used under the supervision of a licensed health care practitioner. Certain prescription drugs have additional controls placed upon them. These drugs are called controlled (or scheduled) drugs. Every time you add prescription medicines to your cart on Umoja Pharmacy and proceed to check out, you get an instruction from our app to upload your prescription to complete your order. This may annoy you and feel like an unnecessary step, but trust us, it is extremely critical for your health and safety.

Here is why we ask for your prescription before placing your order: 1. We Ensure You Get The Right Medicines Our team ensures that you get exactly the same medicines that are written on your prescription. For this purpose, your prescription is proof read and re-checked multiple times before dispensing your medicines. 2. We Ensure You Get The Right Dose Medicines come in various strengths and combinations. There is a reason why certain strengths are given depending on your severity of illness, age, weight and other factors. We take care to give you the right strength (for example 5mg, 10 mg, 50mg) as well as the right combination if required. 2. We Ensure You Take Medicines for The Right Duration We dispense medicines as per the prescription to make sure that you complete your course of treatment. Furthermore, we ensure you take the medications as directed by your doctor. 3. Your Medication or Dosage Might Change Over Time For Chronic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure and heart diseases, you may require to get your prescription renewed by your doctor after a certain period of time. This is important so that your doctor can re-assess your clinical condition and to re-evaluate your medications and dosage. 4. We Follow Government Agencies Policies, Regulation and Guidelines Government of Tanzania has identified medicines that require a valid prescription from a registered medical practitioner to be dispensed by a pharmacy. Also, it has authorized agencies to oversee the regulations, policies and guidelines to ensure quality and standards are met i.e TMDA, TBS, Pharmacy Council and Ministry of Health

5. We Care For You All the prescriptions are digitized for future reference. We have an in house team of expert pharmacists and doctors to ensure we deliver high quality services. This could sometimes be time consuming, but trust us, it is only because we care for you! Additionally, We understand that there are certain medicines which do not require prescription. However, for us to provide such medications we will have to establish valid reasons to why you require them. For this to be done effectively, our team of Pharmacists and Doctors will contact you for support. We are also open to receive your call and requests.