OneHealth,
Nigeria's digital-first pharmacy and healthcare platform, is inviting Nigerians
nationwide to take part in the Lumina Creator Contest, part of the company's
ongoing work actively improving healthcare access across the country. The
contest, which encourages participants to create content that helps more
Nigerians discover and understand Lumina, OneHealth's AI-powered health
assistant, is now open to the general public rather than students alone.
Lumina works
entirely inside WhatsApp, no separate app, no account. It helps users navigate
everyday health questions at any hour: understanding a medication, figuring out
which product fits a specific need, placing an order, or getting connected
directly to a licensed pharmacist or doctor when a question needs a human. It
also underpins Mà ámi, OneHealth's maternal and sexual health initiative, though
medication guidance and general health questions make up the larger share of
what people bring to Lumina day to day.
Lumina sits
alongside OneHealth’s online pharmacy, the PillFinda wholesale marketplace, the
Pillmova logistics arm, The Method weight-management programme, the Imani
wearable breast pump, and delivery network that already serves patients, HMOs
and pharmacy partners across the country.
That
accessibility matters in a health system stretched thin: Nigeria has just one
pharmacist for every 13,385 people, well short of the World Health
Organization's recommended ratio of one to 2,000, according to a Digital Health
Africa analysis of the country's medication access gap.
“The contest
is about getting more Nigerians to actually know Lumina exists,” said Adeola
Alli, Founder and CEO of OneHealth. “We opened it up beyond students because
the questions Lumina answers aren't a campus-only problem; they're every
Nigerian's problem, from a parent trying to figure out a child's medication to
someone who just wants a straight answer at an odd hour.”
OneHealth is
bringing Lumina directly to campuses including the University of Ibadan and the
University of Lagos, once the contest concludes, extending community outreach
the company has already run through the Mà ámi initiative.
“We're not
trying to replace a doctor or a pharmacist,” Alli said. “We're trying to make
sure that whatever a person's very first health question is, whatever it's
about, they have somewhere reliable, free and immediate to take it.”
Nigerians
interested in entering the Lumina Creator Contest, and universities, student
bodies, NGOs or corporate partners interested in future campus engagement, can
find details through OneHealth's official channels.
For more
information, visit www.onehealthng.com.

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