Egyptian pharmacist creates Dawaa, a digital pharmaceutical drug index

Designed to bridge the gap between the conventional hard copy drug reference manual and the digital lives of today’s physicians, Dawaa is a newly released modern digital drug index for the Egyptian market. The service is tailored to young health care professionals: pharmacists, physicians, and dentists. Just like a regular drug index, Dawaa provides information about drugs in the Egyptian market (such as the price, chemical composition, dosage, etc.), with the added advantage of searching by scientific drug name, and thus getting the generic alternatives for any drug, instantly.

Dawaa was brought about by Amr Sobhy, who describes himself as “a pharmacist by education, business person by profession, poet by passion, and entrepreneur at heart.” Sobhy is also the founder of PushBots, a startup that developed a simple way for app managers to send notifications to their users (previously covered by Wamda).

His decision to launch the digital drug manual was born out of his own personal struggle with the conventional portable hard copy drug index. “Since the product is very niche, not too many people will be trying to solve this problem,” he explains, and “[I had the advantage of coming from] the culture of building.” Sobhy quickly assembled a team of two physicians, a designer, and an iOS app developer, to help him with the project.

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Egyptian pharmacist creates Dawaa, a digital pharmaceutical drug index