Pharmacies

After-hours calls answered.
Prescriptions never left waiting.

Patients call your pharmacy at night and on weekends. Maraba answers their prescription queries, opening hours questions, and stock checks — in their language — and escalates urgent cases to your on-call pharmacist.

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80%
of missed pharmacy calls are after-hours
6/10
calls missed during peak dispensing periods
24/7
Maraba available — even at midnight
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first spoken response to every caller
Important: Maraba does not dispense pharmaceutical advice, drug interactions, or dosage recommendations. Maraba handles operational queries (hours, stock availability, prescription collection) and escalates clinical queries to your on-call pharmacist. Configurable escalation ensures a pharmacist is always reachable for clinical questions.

The calls Nigerian pharmacies miss

Patients needing medication don't stop needing it after 6pm. If your pharmacy doesn't answer, they'll either go without or find a competitor. Here's what's driving your missed calls.

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After-hours medication queries
A patient finishing their last dose at 8pm calls to ask if you'll have their medication in stock tomorrow morning. You're closed. They go to a different pharmacy and may not return.
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Stock availability calls before visiting
Patients with chronic conditions call ahead to check whether their specific medication is in stock before making the journey — especially important for those travelling from outside Lagos or Abuja.
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Peak dispensing hour call volume
During morning and evening rush, your pharmacists are dispensing and counselling. The phone rings unanswered. Patients assume you're too busy to care about them.
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Language barriers with older patients
Many patients over 60 are most comfortable in Hausa, Yoruba, or Igbo. An English-only phone line creates friction for exactly the patients who rely on pharmacies most heavily.

What Maraba handles for your pharmacy

Sample call — after-hours prescription query

Patient: Good evening. I wanted to ask if you have Amlodipine 5mg in stock. My prescription runs out tomorrow.

Maraba: Good evening! Amlodipine 5mg is a medication we regularly stock. Based on our current records, we should have it available. The pharmacy opens at 8am tomorrow. Would you like me to note your name so the team can confirm first thing in the morning?

Patient: Yes please. My name is Mrs. Fatimah Aliyu.

Maraba: Thank you, Mrs. Aliyu. I've noted your name and medication for follow-up when we open at 8am. Is there anything else — anything urgent I should escalate to the on-call pharmacist tonight?

Patient: No, that's fine. Thank you.

Built with pharmacy safety requirements in mind

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Mandatory clinical escalation
Any query involving symptoms, drug interactions, adverse reactions, or overdose concern is escalated immediately to your configured on-call pharmacist contact. No exceptions.
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4 Nigerian languages
Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, and English — including mid-sentence code-switching. Older patients who prefer their native language are served with the same quality as English speakers.
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Knowledge base you control
You configure what Maraba can say about stock and hours. Maraba never fabricates information. If a medication is not in your knowledge base, Maraba says so and offers a callback.
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WhatsApp summaries always
Every call — routine or escalated — produces a structured WhatsApp summary within 60 seconds. Complete record of who called, why, and how it was handled.
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Call log and audit trail
Full transcript of every call, stored securely and accessible in your dashboard. Useful for compliance, team review, and identifying frequently-requested items.
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NDPA-aware data handling
Patient call data scoped strictly to your pharmacy account. Transcript retention follows NDPA-reasonable defaults. Patient data never shared or cross-referenced.

"Before Maraba, we missed 6 in 10 calls during our peak hours. Now every call is answered — even at midnight. Our patients actually feel cared for before they even walk through the door."

Chief Pharmacist, Port Harcourt retail pharmacy

Your patients need you after hours too.

Maraba answers every call — in their language, at any hour — and gets them the information they need safely. Apply for beta access.

First 50 calls free — limited beta spots

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