How a thyroid cancer diagnosis birthed Egypt’s leading e-pharmacy platform

When, in 2017, Doaa Aref was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, she soon found that her survival depended on regular access to medication—and that this access was far more complicated than it should be. “I was sitting in the oncology clinic waiting room when I [realised] that other patients were having the same problem,” Aref, 38, recalls. “We were all struggling to find our prescribed…