DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERISED DRUG VERIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERISED DRUG VERIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION IN GENERAL

For good drug management, drug reporting and verification institutions such as NAFDAC (National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control) require an efficient and brilliant technique as well as a flexible system. Their main goal is to destroy all bogus drug manufacturing companies in Nigeria. In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of fake medicines incidents in the country, which has resulted in the necessity to develop an application that will handle the majority of the difficulties addressed in this research work. This research will be critical to these industries since it will address the majority of their problems. Reporting and verification of drugs The entire procedure of drug verification and reporting is simply automated by software. Drugs are registered on the system, and a verification code is generated for each medication manufacturing. The system administrator creates system users, which allow each employee to log in with the appropriate authority and administer his or her account. The system that will be made available to the public includes a window where users may enter a drug code to check the legitimacy of that drug. The admin has complete control over the system.

1.1 INVESTIGATION

The first chapter provides the research activity and the problem definition of the research, and the research rationale tells us why it is vital to research. Where NAFDAC agents find it challenging to access registered pharmaceutical companies and medications straight on the field.It also covers aspects such as scope and limits of investigation, which entails the boundary of this effort. The definition of words summarizes what each chapter includes.

1.2 DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM

This study was conducted to identify some of the issues with traditional drug reporting and verification procedures. Agents of NAFDAC and other drug enforcement agencies find it difficult to gain access to register pharmaceutical enterprises in this area. Using these traditional methods places several constraints on team members, as no team member may access files on the office database while on the job, and reports must be filed at the office.

1.3 STUDY OBJECTIVES

In light of the problems mentioned above, this project aims to implement a drug reporting and verification system that will exclusively: – Register every drug produced by every pharmaceutical company in Nigeria – Produce and register drugs verification code – Register pharmaceutical all companies in Nigeria with each respective trade mark, – Efficiently handle fake drug report files and automate the drug verification process

1.4 JUSTIFICATION OF RESEARCH

This research will give a more reliable and flexible method of drug verification and report filing of fraudulent pharmaceuticals as well as fake pharmaceutical companies that are not authorized to manufacture and distribute drugs in Nigeria. Remove the lag time in file recovery by including an asynchronous request into the system. Furthermore, it will help with structural documents, representation, and will alleviate the monotony of conducting monotonous transactions. This study will also add to the current literature in this field and act as a guide or template for an undergraduate student.

1.5 METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH

The “design and implementation of an interactive project management system” research project will be a web-based application built on a relational database system (MySQL). The web-user interface will be designed using HTML (hypertext markup language), CSS (cascading style sheet), and JQuery, while PHP (hypertext preprocessor) will be utilized as the server-side script language to connect the interface and the database.

1.6 STUDY SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS

The goal of this project is to create a system that can handle all drug agencies in Nigeria, such as drug verification and reporting, drug confirmation codes via secure channels, and drug enforcement agents.A feedback layout between for drug confirmation will also be included in the system’s architecture. The system will not include all of the functions of a drug verification and reporting system in its development, but will instead focus on the aforementioned functionalities. If the system’s environment (network/system placed on) is corrupt, the system will not be liable for any data loss.

1.7 CHAPTER ORGANIZATION

This section was created to explain what each chapter does. Chapter one introduces the project to the reader by explaining the problems the project is supposed to solve, the objective of the study and research justification describes the purpose and importance of researching on this topic, research methodology describes the method used in implementing the research work, scope and limitation describes the boundary of the research work, and w

The second chapter discusses the literature review and the state of the art.This chapter examines the literature review, what people have published linked to this study work and its inadequacies, and how the current research can address those shortcomings.

The third chapter discusses system design methodology, which is a collection of tools, methods, and practices for completing a task; the requirement specification, which defines the system analysis’s expectations; and design, which is the blueprint of what the system will perform.

The fourth chapter discusses implementation, system testing methodologies, target computer system requirements, program maintenance, and so on.

Chapter five outlines the study effort’s recommendations and conclusion, as well as how this work might be applied to the problem domain.