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A
MINI PROJECT REPORT
ON
“RAKTANCHAL” An Blood bank finder application
For the partial fulfilment of the requirement
for the award of the degree of
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY:
Dr. MANISHA GUPTA Priyanka Tiwari
MANGALMAY INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT &
TECHNOLOGY
GREATER NOIDA (U.P.)
Dr. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY,
LUCKNOW

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Certificate
This to certify that miss priyanka tiwari ,Roll no……is a regular student of MBA 1st
Year,has successfully completed my Mini project entitled on RAKTANCHAL for
partial fulfilment of the curriculum for the award of degree of masters of Business
Administration from DR .A.P.J.ABDUL KALAM TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY ,
LUCKNOW ,is a original work done.
Supervisor

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Student Declaration
I, Priyanka Tiwari bearing University Roll No.......... of APJ University, Lucknow,
enrolled as student of MBA at Mangalmay Institute of Management & Technology,
Greater Noida, solemnly declare that the project report titled, ‘“RAKTANCHAL” An
Blood bank finder application’ embodies the results of original research work
carried out by me and the same has not been submitted in any form partially or fully
for award of any diploma or degree of this or any other University/Institute.
(Priyanka Tiwari)
Roll No.: ………

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Preface/ Foreword
This idea came into my mind with my own family situation... Some time ago... My relative
accidental case. He need blood but at that time there is no availability of blood bank in my
town
So i thought i will make an app which helps people to easily communicate with blood bank.
This idea not only for buisness purpose,it also save human life. Make human life easy and
more happy....

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Table of content
Sr. No. Table of Contents Page No.
i Project Cover 01
ii Certificate 02
iii Student Declaration 03
Iv Preface 04
V Table of Content 05
Vi Chapter 1: Develop innovative idea for product/ service 06
Vii Chapter 2: Description of innovative idea for product/
service SWOT AnalysisServices Offered
07-08
viii Chapter 3: Feasibility analysis
i. Commercial and economic feasibility
ii. Technical feasibility
iii. Financial feasibility
iv. Managerial feasibility
v. Social feasibility or acceptability
09-19
IX Chapter 4: Stages in Project Formulation
vi. Techno-economic analysis
vii. Project design and network analysis
viii. Input analysis
ix. Financial analysis
x. Social cost-benefit analysis
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X Chapter 5: Project appraisal & Future scope of study 30
xi Bibliography 31-33
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Chapter 1 :- Develop innovative idea for product or services (Idea generation &
Screening of Idea)
The software system is an online blood bank management system that helps in managing
various blood bank operations effectively. The project consists of a central repository
containing various blood deposits available along with associated details.
These details include blood type, storage area and date of storage. These details help in
maintaining and monitoring the blood deposits.
The project is an online system that allows to check weather required blood deposits of a
particular group are available in the blood bank.
Moreover the system also has added features such as patient name and contacts, blood
booking and even need foe certain blood group is posted on the website to find available
donors for a blood emergency.
This online system is developed on .net platform and supported by an Sql database to store
blood and user specific details.

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Chapter 2: Description of innovative idea for product or services
My Logo & Tag line -
 The main aim of this project is to save lives of people by providing blood.
 Our project Online Blood Bank system using Android is developed so that users can view
the information of nearby hospitals, blood banks and volunteer donors.
 This project is developed by four perspectives i.e. hospital, bloodbank, volunteer donors
and patient.
 This application we are developing helps to select the nearby hospitals, bloodbanks,
donors online instantly by tracing its location using GPS.
 This application reduces the time to a greater extent that is searching for the required
blood through blood banks and hospitals.
 Thus this application provides the required information in less time and also helps in
quicker decision making
 To bridge the gap between blood banks, hospitals, volunteer donors and needy people,
through this system.
 To facilitate the search process for needy people and make it easier than before.
 To reduce the data entry process.
 To use GPS service for locating the hospitals, blood banks & volunteer donors to know if
the seeker is near to or not.
 Some blood types are rare so the system can find the required donors with the required
blood type easily from the huge database by using search feature in the android app.
 To provide dynamic database that is storing donors Information and can communicate
with them easily.

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Chapter 3: FEASIBILITY STUDY
FEASIBILITY STUDY
A feasibility study is a high-level capsule version of the entire System analysis and Design
Process. The study begins by classifying the problem definition. Feasibility is to determine if
it’s worth doing. Once an acceptance problem definition has been generated, the analyst
develops a logical model of the system. A search for alternatives is analyzed carefully. There
are 3 parts in feasibility study.
i. Managerial feasibility
ii. Technical feasibility
iii. Financial feasibility
iv. Commercial and economic feasibility
v. Social feasibility or acceptability
1. Managerial feasibility
Operational feasibility is the measure of how well a proposed system solves the problems,
and takes advantage of the opportunities identified during scope definition and how it
satisfies the requirements identified in the requirements analysis phase of system
development.
The operational feasibility assessment focuses on the degree to which the proposed
development projects fits in with the existing business environment and objectives with
regard to development schedule, delivery date, corporate culture and existing business
processes.To ensure success, desired operational outcomes must be imparted during design
and development. These include such design-dependent parameters as reliability,
maintainability, supportability, usability, producibility, disposability, sustainability,
affordability and others. These parameters are required to be considered at the early stages of
design if desired operational behaviours are to be realised.
A system design and development requires appropriate and timely application of engineering
and management efforts to meet the previously mentioned parameters.
A system may serve its intended purpose most effectively when its technical and operating
characteristics are engineered into the design. Therefore, operational feasibility is a critical
aspect of systems engineering that needs to be an integral part of the early design phases.

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2. TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY
This involves questions such as whether the technology needed for the system exists, how
difficult it will be to build, and whether the firm has enough experience using that
technology.
The assessment is based on outline design of system requirements in terms of input,
processes, output, fields, programs and procedures. This can be qualified in terms of volume
of data, trends, frequency of updating inorder to give an introduction to the technical system.
The application is the fact that it has been developed on windows XP platform and a high
configuration of 1GB RAM on Intel Pentium Dual core processor. This is technically feasible
The technical feasibility assessment is focused on gaining an understanding of the present
technical resources of the organization and their applicability to the expected needs of the
proposed system. It is an evaluation of the hardware and software and how it meets the need
of the proposed system.

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3. Financial feasibility
Establishing the cost-effectiveness of the proposed system i.e. if the benefits do not outweigh
the costs then it is not worth going ahead. In the fast paced world today there is a great need
of online social networking facilities.
Thus the benefits of this project in the current scenario make it economically feasible. The
purpose of the economic feasibility assessment is to determine the positive economic benefits
to the organization that the proposed system will provide. It includes quantification and
identification of all the benefits expected. This assessment typically involves a cost/benefits
analysis

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Financing and Cost
Several alternative means for system change are described in the report. Four of these
alternatives (two of which involve the frozen blood concept) are regarded as best candidates
for selection.
Alternative 1 : Adaptation of regional systems administered by existing blood organizations
including the establishment of donor registries, call-up and retention procedures, media
advertising, inventory control procedures, and use of CPD to extend blood storage life to 28
days.
Alternative 2 : Adaptation of regional systems administered by existing blood organizations
including the establishment of donor registries, call-up and retention procedures, media
advertising, inventory control procedures, and transfusion review.
Alternative 3 : Adoption of frozen blood nationwide in conjunction with
(1) establishment of regional inventory control;
(2) full Federal subsidization of start-up costs.
Alternative 4: Adoption of frozen blood nationwide in conjunction with
(1) establishment of regional inventory control;
(2) low interest five-year loans to nonprofit and for-profit organizations
to cover start-up costs.
Alternative Deaths Total
(Annually)
Total Cost to
Federal Gov't. (0
Millions)
Total avg.
annual cost to
user ; 1 to 3 yrs
(M)
Total annual
cost 1 to 3 years
(M)
Current System 2285 - 418 418
Alternative 1 995 11 341 345
Alternative 2 885 11 330 334
Alternative 3 5 88 378 407
Alternative 4 5 121 395 395
It will be noted that current system cost exceeds all alternatives for the first year even when
start-up costs for frozen blood and regional controls are fully amortized in the first three
years.
Alternatives 1 and 2 appear to be favored over alternatives 3 and
4 because of the high start-up costs of either a fully subsidized or
non- subsidized frozen blood program.
Whereas alternatives 1 and 2 are less expensive in terms of average patient payment, there are
approximately 900 more deaths associated with these alternatives. The question of whether
the expense involved in saving these lives is too high is largely a policy consideration.
 Assumes 60% HAA test effectiveness.
 Lost opportunity costs to government associated with low interest loans have not been
treated in this comparison.

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4.Commercial and economic feasibility
As the necessary hardware and software are available in the market at a low cost, the initial
investment is the only cost incurred and does not need any further enhancements. Hence it is
economically feasible.The system is feasible in all respects and hence it encourages taking up
the system design.

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5.Social feasibility or acceptability
The population of the world is multiplying with each coming year and so are the diseases and
health issues. With an increase in the population there is an increase in the need of blood. The
growing population of the world results in a lot of potential blood donors.
But in spite of this not more than 10% of the total world population participates in blood
donation. With the growing population and the advancement in medical science the demand
for blood has also increased.
Due to the lack of communication between the blood donors and the blood recipients, most of
the patients in need of blood do not get blood on time and hence lose their lives. There is a
dire need of synchronization between the blood donors and hospitals and the blood banks.
This improper management of blood leads to wastage of the available blood inventory.
Improper communication and synchronization between the blood banks and hospitals leads to
wastage of the blood available. These problems can be dealt with by automating the existing
manual blood bank management system.
A high-end, efficient, highly available and scalable system has to be developed to bridge the
gap between the donors and the recipients and to reduce the efforts required to search for
blood donors.

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Chapter 4: Stages in Project Formulation
1. Techno-economic analysis
2. Project design and network analysis
3. Input analysis
4. Financial analysis
5. Social cost-benefit analysis
1.Techno-economic analysis :-
Blood transfusion service is a multibillion dollar profession/ business worldwide. Being
Indian blood bank personnel, we may not like to call it as business. But in the real sense, it is
a production industry with all the components of business built into it. Still, we will not like
to call it a business because of the fear in our minds that our general population or blood
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clarify to the donor at the time of donation that there is service charge for blood units. As a
result, when the donor needs blood, it comes as a rude shock and he makes allegations of the
‘sale’ of blood. At that moment, the situation becomes embarrassing because we hesitate to
accept that we follow t we follow a cost recovery system which is a part of the business.
Many of our friends may not like to call it a business. But do you ever think about the money
involved in Indian blood transfusion services (BTS)? Let us calculate the figure. If we take
the total blood collection in India as 7.5 million units yearly, 2% of blood is discarded
(minimum) due to various reasons. If we deduct 2% of discarded blood, the total usable
whole blood or red cells will be 6460,000 units in India. For blood components, let us take a
conservative estimate that only 25% blood is separated into components. In that situation, we
will have about 1,365,000 components for patients. Now to find out the total revenue
generation across the country, let us take the service charge ceiling laid down by the National
AIDS Control Organization (NACO). NACO has prescribed Rs. 850 per unit of whole blood
or RBC and 6460,000 units will generate Rs.549,1000,000. On the other hand, components
will attract revenue of Rs.68,2500,000 (@ Rs.500 per component on an average). Total
revenue generated by whole blood/ red cells and components is Rs.617,3500,000 (or
US$123270000 @ 1 USD= Rs.50). We have not calculated products prepared by aphaeresis
technique because of non-availability of data. What does all this calculation mean to us?
Indian BTS is a billion-dollar (Rs.617 crore) healthcare system and all of us are contributors
to it.
Who are the managers of the Indian BTS, of this billion-dollar healthcare system? We have
four types of blood banks/centers (from the administrative point of view) in India. They are
managed by the public (government) sector, Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS), non-
government organizations (NGOs, on not for profit basis) and corporate or commercial
sectors. Let us discuss today how efficiently more than 2,460 blood banks in India are
managed. Roughly, about 55% blood banks are from the government sector, 5% from the
IRCS, about 20-25% are from the NGO sector and the rest are from corporate or profit-
making sectors. If we look into the government sector, blood banks are run by blood bank in-
charge or Blood Transfusion Officers (BTOs) who takes care of regular administration under
the guidance (?) of the Medical Superintendents/ Director of that hospital. Many a times, the
head of laboratory or pathology also takes charge of the blood bank. If it is a medical college
(government or private), usually the head of the department of Pathology takes additional
responsibilities of the blood bank. There are about 40 blood banks in the country which are
separated from the Pathology department as independent Transfusion Medicine
(Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion) department where trained technical personnel
take care of regular administration. In case of IRCS blood banks, there is a committee which
‘officially’ manages administration through the blood bank in-charge or BTO. However,
there is always some control from the local or state-level IRCS in the management. In the
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manage mainly with a small number of family replacement donations, professional hospital
administrators or experienced businessmen manage blood banks behind the scene.
2.Project design and network analysis:-
Blood banks play an important role in the process of collecting blood and managing blood
stocks, approving blood requests, updating donations anupdating available blood types.
Raster’s web-based BBMS will address the issues and problems encountered in collecting
information about donors, blood camps, inventories of blood bags, and blood transfusion
services, etc, including donor screening, inventory management, blood ordering, blood usage
review and compatibility testing. Blood Bank Management system will greatly increase the
safety and quality of the blood supply as well as provide logistics data for the optimal supply
chain management.
Blood Bank Management System
Feature
 Ensures hospitals have good supply or inventories of blood bags
 List the availability of blood bags at any given time.
 Ability to manage the information of its blood donor.
 Alerts for blood requirement from registered donors.
 Auto-check if the person donated blood in the last 3 months.
 Allows good documentation about the donor and their blood donation activities.
 Support fast searching to find match blood bags for the right person
 Effectively manage blood camps
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Module 1: Android application This module consists of the process of how blood
donation process is done in this system. The blood donor can find out the nearest blood
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aGPRS feature used in this system. The blood donorwill then have to register themselves on
the application for validation purpose and further
donating the blood to a particular blood bank. Theseblood donors can later also be contacted
based on the availability status they have updated on the system
for further contact in case of requirement of blood of their blood group.
Module 2: Hospital Web Application This module consists of the process of how recipients
are going to request for the required amount of blood from the blood bank. The recipient has
to make use of unique hospital id which is registered in the hospital’s database .Only those
requests made through a valid hospital id will be considered as valid requests. While
requesting for the required amount of blood , the recipient can check the availability of blood
of all blood groups in all the registered blood banks available in the system so that request is
not sent to a
blood bank which is deficient of the required blood .
Module 3: Blood Bank Web Application This module consists of the process of how the
requests from recipients for the required blood are served. The Blood Bank first checks
whether the request is a valid one. After validtion it checks the
hospital’s database to ensure that the required amount of blood is not available in that
hospital and after the request is served. The blood bank module also consists of requesting the
blood when urgently needed from other banks and from the registered donors who have kept
their status as available for further contact.
Module 4: Database Separate databases are maintained for the android
application which mainly consists of the registere donor’s information, the database of
hospital web application which consists of the records of available
blood group samples and also the database of the blood bank web application which consists
of records of the blood group samples and their respective
quantity available in every blood bank. The database of the android application is in sync
with the databaseof the web application.All the databases will be
hosted on the cloud server . This will make the mmore reliable and also will make them
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Input analysis:-
1.The Optimization of Blood Donor Information and Management System
The Optimization of Blood Donor Information and Management System byTechnopedia
proposed a web based application and android application so that the blood donors are
available easily within the required time.
The donors who arenearby location are tracked by the android application using GIS. The
purpose of website is to update the relevant information regarding the donors who
havealready donated blood in various hospitals, therefore when it is needed for anyothers
they can view other donors where it can be accessed through this website.
The web application has a system database where it consists of the informationregarding
existing and new donors and acceptors. The main problem is related withthe information
about knowing the details of donors in the city.
The androidapplication uses the GIS where the function is called as Geocoding which creates
a point on a map to find the nearest locality of donor. A function of GIS is
Onscreendigitization where the acceptor or patient who need the blood from donor for
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2. Bharat Blood Bank in India
Donors in India who want to donate blood can register at Bharat Blood Bank after reading the
basic constraints of donating blood. Bharat Blood Bank requests the donor's name, password,
and ID to allow the donor to access his account,
whichcontains information about his date of birth, blood group, gender status, andweight,
email ID, mobile no, city, address, state, and information about kidney,cancer and heart
disease, and date of his last blood donation.
After that, the peoplewho need blood can browse the site and display the list of blood
donors.BhartBloodBank.com allows recipients to search by area to have more
reachabledonors.
The website provides the phone number to the recipients to make contactwith the donor.
Also, BharatBloodBank.com provides information about BloodDonation, such as tips,
scientific information, facts, etc.
It selects other blood banks for blood donation. BharatBloodBank.com offers these services
for free.Further, the site doesn’t use the collected information for any commercial
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Financial analysis
Reception
This module automates the day-to-day operations of the front office management of
your Blood Bank. It helps the operator in assisting patient with accurate information and
efficiently handles all patient enquiries related to the blood. With advanced search
utilities and excellent features, it improves the quality of services facilitated to the user.
This module manages:-
 Appointment Scheduler
 Patient Registration
 Generate Patient ID Card
 Demographic Detail
 Charge Detail
 Billing & Payment
 Blood Donor Registration
 Search Blood Bag information

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Outpatient Management
This module is actually an entry point to schedule an appointment to buy the blood bags
required by a patient. This module enables to take better patient care and timely
issuance/donation of blood to the needy patient. This module manages:-
 Visit Detail
 Blood bag requisition
 Patient Appointments
 Blood issuance
 Appointment Scheduling /
Rescheduling Facility
Blood Bank Management
This module is a comprehensive solution for blood bank, maintaining all information
regarding the blood donation. This module is well linked with other modules and so is
well known to blood bank and can keep the bag ready for the issuance. This module
manages:-
 Registration of Blood Donors.
 Receiving Blood or Donation.
 Setting up the blood bag number and expiry date.
 Instant search of required blood group and issue to patient.
Appointment Scheduling
This module enables reception to fix an appointment for patient for the blood donation.
Effective scheduling technique makes proper utilization of management time and
reduces waiting time of patients. This module includes:-
 Provision to set staff available timings for the blood donation.
 Easy blood group search as per requirement.
 Patient/Relative can request for online appointment.
 Blood bags availability can be seen in detail.
Billing
This module tracks all services that patient has gone through and charges been levied
and generates an automated billing as per those services. Other service charges can also
be levied as per Blood Bank norms and can be included in the final bill. This module
includes:-
 Provision to add service charges of Blood Bank.
 Tax master that may be required to include in billing.
 Outpatient cash and credit billing.
 Advance collection utility.
 Authorize billing and immediate updation of collection of cash.
 Provision to search old bills with easy search strings like patient name, mobile
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Staff, HR & Payroll Management
This module allows registering each and every staff members of the Blood Bank. Also, the
consultant doctors can be registered here with a separate block of consultants. Easy retrieval
of Staff Members with the help of various search strings like Staff Name, phone number,
email ID, staff code etc. This module includes:-
 Provision to manage and view Departments and Staff Designations
 Provision to add Staff Type and Specializations.
 Provision to set staff timings includes Doctors.
 Easy and instant search utility to search staff members.
 Creation of Salary structure, pay calculation, printing of salary slips, salary
certificates, PF statements and so on.
 Other activities like appointing staff, maintaining their database including their bio-
data, fixing allowances and deductions, appraisal letters, Loan and advances,
termination process etc.
 Employee documents like Photograph, ID card, Address proof, Passport, municipality
documents, agreements etc can be scanned and attached in the software.
Inventory Management & Purchase
This module deals with the purchase of items required in Blood Bank, issue of those items
into various departments, maintenance of stock and setting up the minimum stock / reorder
level for each stock. This module includes:-
 Provision to raise purchase request for any item.
 Assigned authority approves or declines the purchase
 Purchase order generation and processing.
 Allocation of purchased items to the requested departments.
 Provision to transfer stock from one department to another.
 Vendor management and payments.
 Stock requisition from departments.
 Stock expiry.
 Stock management.
 Reorder level setting.
Security & Administration
This module deals with security by managing / controlling the access to various modules and
sub-modules available in the software. It also deals with the other secured parameters like
importing database, Blood Bank information. This module includes:-
 Provision to Create / manage users.
 Import database utility, very helpful in case of preexisting records.
 Provision to allocate role to the respective user.
 Provision to create / manage roles and assigning privileges and permission of
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MIS Reports
Management information system reports are available for every module for the analysis &
monitoring by top management of the Blood Bank. Various kinds of MIS reports are:-
 Date wise Patient registration report
 OPD Collection report
 OPD revenue report
 Blood Bank revenue service wise report
 OPD refund report
 Blood Bags issuance report
 Stock purchase requisitions
 Billing rates for various services.
 Also, we have many more reports and can add more reports as per requirement.
5.Social cost-benefit analysis
In evaluating the detailed assessment of the financial resources spent on the development of
this system, the cost per stage is determined by multiplying the estimated number of hours
spent on that stage and the rate per hour which was inquired by the researcher from the PRC.
The system is found to be technically feasible since there is already an available hardware
and software component which is needed to implement the system. In the long run, the
intangible benefits of time and effort saved brought about by the implementation of the
system surpasses the essential knowledge and skills to use computers with tangible benefits
of paperless transactions in the PRC. PRC employees can be more productive with their time
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Chapter 5: Project appraisal & Future scope of study
Project clarification is the process of selecting a project request for further study. When a
system development or modification request is made, the first systems activity, the
preliminary investigation, begins the activity has three parts: Request clarification, feasibility
study and project appraisal.
Many request from employees and users in organization are not clearly stated.
Therefore before any systems investigation can be considered,the project request must be
examined to determine preciously what the originator wants.
This is called Request clarification. This paper presents a high-end system to bridge the gap
between the blood donors and the people in need for blood. Application for Blood Bank
Management System is a way to synchronize Blood banks and Hospitals with the help of
Internet.
It is a Web Application through which Registered Hospitals can check the availability of
required Blood and can send Request for blood to the nearest blood bank or donor matching
with blood requirement and can be ordered online as and when required.
Blood bank can also send a request to another blood bank for unavailable blood. Person
willing to donate blood can find out nearest blood banks using Blood Bank Management
Android Application. The location of the blood bank can also be traced using maps. The
Android application can be accessed only by the donors to search the blood donation centers
and the requesting blood banks and hospitals to search the nearest blood banks and donors.
As there was a little number of contact person’s information given, some people may face
difficulty in getting blood fast. So i like to gather more information regarding the contact
persons in other cities as well as and villages will provide much more services for the people
and help everyone with humanity.

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