Patients search alone
One pharmacy at a time, with no way to know who has it in stock.
PharX · 2026
The pharmacy network every city is missing.
PharX lets anyone ask every licensed pharmacy nearby for a medicine at once and get answers in minutes, with prescriptions sent sealed from the doctor. It starts in Cairo and is built to scale across the Gulf, Canada and the world.
A working prototype, live today in Arabic and English · Download the one-pager (PDF)
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The problem
Finding medicine still happens by phone and on foot.
When a medicine is hard to find, families call pharmacy after pharmacy, post in Facebook groups, and drive across the city. The pharmacy that has it often never hears about them.
Pharmacies miss sales
A pharmacy with the right box on its shelf has no way to reach the person looking for it.
Paper can be copied
Paper prescriptions can be altered, photographed and used twice.
“would have to search several pharmacies around me to find it”A patient in Cairo, speaking to The National, February 20245
The product
One request. Every pharmacy nearby.
Already built and working. Open any of these right now.
Patient app
Search real medicine names, see real pharmacies on a map, send one request, get reminders before a medicine runs out.
Open itPharmacy dashboard
Requests from people nearby, one-tap answers, live revenue and a shortage radar. Pharmacies sign up in four steps from a phone.
Open itDoctor portal
Doctors write a prescription and send it sealed with a real digital signature, straight to the patient's phone.
Open itSealed prescriptions
Every prescription gets a digital signature and is stamped once dispensed, so it can't be copied or reused.
See itInteraction checks
Two medicines checked against official U.S. FDA drug label data, explained in plain words.
Open itBuilt for everyone
Arabic and English, larger text, screen readers, and a guided Help on every page.
See itWorking prototype. Pharmacy replies, orders and revenue in the demo are sample data until launch.
Business model
Pharmacies pay when PharX brings them customers.
Free for patients. Simple for pharmacies.
Pharmacy plans
Free to join and answer requests. A Pro plan adds demand insights, multi-branch tools and marketing.
A fee per order
A small fee on each order reserved through PharX and picked up. Pharmacies only pay for sales PharX brings them.
Partnerships
Delivery, insurers and pharmacy chains, once the network is in place.
Why PharX wins
Every pharmacy that joins makes it better for everyone.
A three-sided network
Patients, pharmacies and doctors. More pharmacies mean faster answers, more patients mean more sales, and doctors bring sealed prescriptions that only PharX can verify. Each side pulls in the others.
A trust layer
Sealed, single-use prescriptions give pharmacies and regulators a reason to prefer PharX over paper.
Works on any phone
No hardware and no inventory system. Pharmacies answer in one tap, and soon right from WhatsApp.
Real-time demand signals
Every request shows where a medicine is short, as it happens. Aggregated and anonymous, this can help supply reach the people who need it.
Roadmap
From Cairo to the world.
The app already works in any country, in Arabic and English. The launch goes city by city.
- 2026 · Done
Built
A working prototype with real medicine and map data, in Arabic and English.
- 2027 · Plan
Cairo pilot
Partner pharmacies in central Cairo, and the first real requests and orders.
- Next · Plan
All of Egypt
Giza, Alexandria and the Delta, toward 80,000+ pharmacies.
- Then · Plan
The Gulf
The UAE, starting with Dubai, then Saudi Arabia.
- Then · Plan
Canada and beyond
Toronto first, then city by city worldwide.
Founder
Designed and built from scratch by its founder.
Bavly Awad is 17 and designed and built the PharX prototype to fix a problem every family in Egypt knows: finding the medicine you need, today.
- 17 years old
- Built the whole prototype
- Based in Egypt
Let's talk
Help bring every pharmacy in the city one request away.
PharX is getting ready for its Cairo pilot. If you'd like to be part of it, Bavly would love to hear from you.
Sources
- “More than 80,000 pharmacies” in Egypt: Egypt Independent, via the Cairo Governorate portal, October 2025.
- Market of EGP 422 billion (about $8.5 billion) in 2025, up 37% year on year: Egyptian Drug Authority chairman, reported by Arab Finance.
- About 800 medications unavailable, July 2024, per Ali Auf of the Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce: Egyptian Streets.
- Population of 108 million, CAPMAS, August 2025: Egypt Today.
- The National, “Medicine shortages in Cairo”, 15 February 2024.