The Prospect and Significance of Lifeline: An E-blood bank System

摘要

Despite the regulatory measures, effective blood transfusion services still remain sadly unavailable to one of the world's poorest and dense populations. Among other African countries that fail to meet World Health Organization (WHO) blood requirement in recent years, Our Experience in Nigeria and other convincing remarks show that blood is not in good circulation, especially for the needy who are in most cases exploited and eventually faced with serious health challenges due to unsafe blood transfusion leading to deadly infections and consequently death and other times, blood is totally unavailable. In view of this, we proposed and implemented a working system of blood bank service which ensures patients get quick access to blood donors of any type whether volunteer donors, replacement donors (family or friends), or compensated donors, in each case, mutual interest is protected. This system is designed to thrive even in the remotest of areas and easy for both young and old because it adopts the use of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data or USSD code, Short Message Service (SMS) and free toll line which makes the system available for both online and offline database queries. Our initial results show that, if this system is fully implemented, effective blood transfusion services will be in quick improvement in Nigeria and by extension Africa.