The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) (T), the major health insurance organization in the country took the initiative to accredit pharmacies and drug dispensing outlets so as to enable the Fund's members to get medicines once a health facility does not have such medicines in its stock. This practice created loop-holes for fraudulent practices whereby some people benefited from the Fund by creating ghost patients in pharmacies and from patients visiting more than one facility, hence getting multiple prescriptions as a result costing the Fund millions.

Due to this, the Fund took the initiative to develop an Online Hospital-Pharmacy data link, a system installed in accredited health facilities and pharmacies intended to ensure that all patients visiting pharmacies are those referred from health facilities and that a patient may not be referred to another pharmacy for the same medicine until the prescribed dosage is exhausted. Once the patient visits another health facility, the system detects that such medicines have already been dispensed and denies access to prescribe the same. Over a one month period, the system has saved the Fund over TZS 200 million (USD 89,296.19).