Project
In Kenya, blood allocated for transfusions is stored in several centralized blood banks throughout the country. The job of a central blood repository is to ensure the dozens of neighboring local district hospitals are always stocked with an adequate amount of blood to meet the transfusion needs in the event of an emergency. However, most of these local district hospitals lack reliable electricity and phone lines. Without a consistent method of communicating with the local district hospitals, the central repositories are unable to stay updated about where blood is most needed. BloodBank SMS was developed to improve the communication between local district hospitals and Kenya’s centralized blood banks.