In Switzerland, millions of pack of unexpired, unopened medicine are thrown away every year in an estimated worth of up to 1 billion CHF.
The estimated value of unused, expired and surplus medications in the EU exceeds €7 billion annually.
These surplus medicines are usually incinerated, due to costs and regulatory issues.
Sharemed Swiss is pioneering in reimagining the cycle of medication access to underserved people. We want to do it by looking at new ways of creating value from the wasted. Rather than disposing of surplus or leftovers, we design alternatives to give them a new life. Progressing together with you on “creating value from the wasted” journey, we are utilising ambitions, innovations and transformation experiences of all kind. Sustainability matters, the social, economic and environmental benefits that its advance entails.
We’re a Swiss NGO, medicine and health product donation experts, redistributor of surplus medicine and health products.
Powered by technology, ShareMed Swiss helps organisations like manufacturers, pharmacies, hospitals, elderly homes to revitalise, reallocate unused, leftover medicine and health products and get them to where it’s needed most.
ShareMed Swiss is a pioneering Swiss NGO dedicated to developing the circular economy by transforming surplus, unopened, in-date medicines into reusable stocks that patients can easily access.
We focus on CIRCULARITY – whereby unused, surplus medicines, and other health products in health systems can be responsibly collected and re-distributed to patients struggling with medication insecurity, saving tons of medicines wastage from incineration.
Millions don’t take their medication because either they can’t afford it, or they are simply not accessible. Many places in the World, people are making choices between medications or food, home, education. It doesn’t have to be like this. ShareMedSwiss provides access so everyone gets the care they deserve. Many of lives can be changed.
Experts estimate that 70% of waterways are contaminated with pharmaceutical runoff. More than 600 pharmaceutical molecules detected in water and soil worldwide; 30% to 90% of active ingredients are found in the environment, impact fauna and flora in the food chain, making long lasting effect on human health.
Unused, surplus medicines, other health products in health systems can be responsibly collected and re-distributed to patients struggling with medication insecurity. Tons of medicine can be saved.
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