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Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Smart blood bank solution connecting banks, hospital and donors
Every day in Nigeria, 145 women of childbearing age, and another 150 victims of road traffic accidents lose their lives because they could not get a blood transfer. Patients with cancer or sickle cell disease fight an uphill battle daily as they are denied lifesaving transfusions due to health systems having large deficits of available blood.
Project Lend an Arm uses a social strategy called 'herding'; mobile technology, AI and IoT to ensure quick, stable supply of safe blood to patients in need. Our solution integrates point-of-care technologies, drones and conversational AI to ensure donors, patients and hospitals in Nigeria can swiftly access blood anytime, anywhere using any device connected to the internet.
Our solution at Project Lend an Arm is in 3 parts:
Project Lend an Arm is able to connect hospitals, blood banks and donors through the following steps:
1. A Doctor at a partner hospital makes a clinical assessment of severe blood loss
2. S/he performs a point-of-care Hemoglobin (Hb) quantification using a HemoCue Hb 801 device supplied by us and gets a result instantly. If Hb <6.5g/dL, the device through HemoCue 801 connect, remotely pulls a blood request to our lab via the app OR Asake. This request will require the patient’s blood group to execute.
3. The Doctor performs a point-of-care blood grouping using Erycard 2.0 cards we supplied as well and gets a result in 4 minutes then inputs the result, executing the request.
4. The request arrives at our lab where our computer (running Netripples Total Blood bank management software) checks for compatible units of blood in the database. The matching blood bag numbers are identified and loaded unto a drone by our staff.
5. Delivery drones deliver the blood units to the hospital Total time = <30minutes (over a 20km radius)
Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
https://www.lendanarm.ng