Fajiva is a mobile platform connecting doctors, patients and pharmacies in Dakar. A prescription is routed to a pharmacy that can fill it, then delivered through existing ride-share networks — no warehouses, no owned fleet.
West Africa has no dominant pharmacy chains. Finding out whether a medication is actually in stock usually means calling around or travelling between pharmacies.
Generic manufacturers already supply the region at volume, but distribution rarely reaches the patient. Access depends on who happens to live near a well-stocked pharmacy.
Senegal's pharmaceutical regulation closely follows EU and French models. That makes a standards-aligned platform practical to build here without inventing a new quality framework.
The pharmacies, the stock and the delivery riders already exist in Dakar. What is missing is a layer that connects a prescription to whichever of them can act on it now.
Three steps, from prescription to doorstep. Fajiva coordinates the flow; licensed pharmacies fill the order and partner riders carry it.
A doctor submits the prescription in the doctor portal, using a formulary-driven search that surfaces approved generic and brand options with standard dosages. Patients can instead photograph a paper prescription and add their delivery details.
The order is transmitted to a nearby pharmacy. If it is not accepted within five to ten minutes, it moves to the next one. Availability is signalled by accepting or declining, so no pharmacy needs live inventory integration to take part.
Once filled, the order is handed to an existing ride-share or delivery partner in Dakar for the last mile. Fajiva runs no fleet of its own at launch.
Pharmacies are ranked on response and fulfilment time — not star ratings. Consistently slow or unfulfilled orders push a pharmacy down the routing order.
A structured way to prescribe and route medication for a patient. Formulary search reduces manual-entry mismatch and wrong-drug risk, and every choice stays the doctor's to override.
For doctors →Fill a prescription without working out which pharmacy has the medication. Upload the prescription, give a name, address, date of birth and delivery instructions, and wait for the order.
PATIENT APP — IN DEVELOPMENTFajiva is a partner channel, not a competitor. Accept the orders you can fill, decline the ones you cannot, and keep your own stock and pricing decisions.
For pharmacies →Fajiva is a coordination layer: prescribing, pharmacy matching and delivery dispatch. It is not a pharmacy.
Medication is dispensed by licensed pharmacies. Fajiva does not warehouse or own drug inventory, and a pharmacist licensed in Senegal is part of the operating model.
We hold no inventory and do not supply drugs directly. Orders are filled by the pharmacy that accepts them.
Sourcing runs through wholesale distributors, with a preference for EU-approved generics in line with Senegal's EU-aligned framework.
Doctors are never compensated or steered for prescribing through Fajiva. There is no arrangement of that kind, and there will not be one.
Parts of the model — including legal review of automated order routing and pharmacist-of-record accountability — are still under review with licensed local advisers. We do not claim approvals we do not yet hold.
These are plans beyond the first phase. Telemedicine in particular depends on regulatory confirmation we do not yet have.
We are onboarding partners in Dakar now. Tell us which side you are on and we will follow up.