Abstract
The blood is a connective tissue in the body and one of the most critical elements of human life. The shortage of this life-saving fluid has become a recurrent problem to deliver medical care in many countries, because in emergencies, relatives of patients run around to get specific blood type when unavailable at the medical institution, without adequate information on the closest available source. While there are existing blood bank management systems that help locate available blood bank centers with the needed blood type, they do not provide information on the nearest center and donor. This research therefore developed a web based system that provides information for the discovery of the blood bank centers and human donors with the highest proximity during emergencies. Web development technologies were used, and the Google Map API was used to track, calculate and display the location of each blood bank and donor. The system thus aid users in obtaining blood faster rather than going from one hospital to another in search for a specific blood type to reduce the number of deaths caused by lack of blood during emergencies.
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Ayeni, B., Sowunmi, O.Y., Misra, S., Maskeliūnas, R., Damaševičius, R., Ahuja, R. (2021). A Web Based System for the Discovery of Blood Banks and Donors in Emergencies. In: Abraham, A., Siarry, P., Ma, K., Kaklauskas, A. (eds) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. ISDA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1181. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49342-4_57
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