10-04-2017, 08:10 PM
The purpose of the blood bank management system is to simplify and automate the process of
searching for blood in case of emergency and maintain the records of blood donors, recipients,
blood donation programs and blood stocks in the bank.
II. Background
A) Problem Statement
At present, the public can only know about the blood donation events through conventional
media means such as radio, news paper or television advertisements. There is no information
regarding the blood donation programs available on any of the portal.
The current system that is using by the blood bank is manual system. With the manual system,
there are problems in managing the donors' records. The records of the donor might not be kept
safely and there might be missing of donor's records due to human error or disasters. Besides
that, errors might occur when the staff keeps more than one record for the same donor.
There is no centralized database of volunteer donors. So, it becomes really tedious for a person to
search blood in case of emergency. The only option is to manually search and match donors and
then make phone calls to every donor.
There is also no centralized database used to keep the donors' records. Each bank is having their
own records of donors. If a donor makes donation in different hospital, no previous records can
be traced except if the donor brings along the donation certificate. Hence, the donor is considered
to be a first-timer if they make blood donation in a new place.
Without an automated management system, there are also problems in keeping track of the actual
amount of each and every blood type in the blood bank. In addition, there is also no alert
available when the blood quantity is below its par level or when the blood in the bank has
expired.
B) Project Goals and Objectives
The goals and objectives of the Blood Bank Management System are as follows:
1. To provide a means for the blood bank to publicize and advertise blood donation
programs.
2. To allow the probable recipients to make search and match the volunteer donors, and
make request for the blood.
3. To provide an efficient donor and blood stock management functions to the blood bank
by recording the donor and blood details.
4. To improve the efficiency of blood stock management by alerting the blood bank staffs
when the blood quantity is below it par level or when the blood stock has expired.
5. To provide synchronized and centralized donor and blood stock database.
6. To provide immediate storage and retrieval of data and information.
C) Product Description
The system that is going to be developed is Blood Bank Management System (BBMS). This is a
web-based database application system that is to be used by the blood banks or blood centers as a
means to advertise the nation wide blood donation events to the public and at the same time
allow the public to make online reservation and request for the blood.
The system keeps the record of all the donors, recipients, blood donation programs, rejected
bloods. For internal works and activities intranet is used and for interaction with public internet
is used.
This system also has the ability to keep track of the donor's donation records and the blood stock
in the blood bank. This project intends to computerize the blood and donor management system
in a blood bank in order to improve the record management efficiency due to the grown size of
records of data.
II. Scope
The system is used for maintaining all the process and activities of blood bank management
system.
The system can be extended to be used for maintaining records of hospital, organ donation and
other similar sectors. While developing the system, there shall be space for further modification.
There shall be a proper documentation so that further enhancement becomes easy.
