Tuesday, Jun 12, 2012
Al Ain
Blood banks across the emirates will soon be linked through a modern web-based system to facilitate the swift provision of blood for the patients in need.
It will also streamline the blood donation process and exchange the information of donors between the hospitals, Hamad Al Mulla, Director of the Regional Blood Bank at Tawam Hospital, said here on Tuesday at the launching of the system at his facility.
The application, widely used in blood banks in Europe and the US, simplifies donors registrations, blood donating and other processes such as separation of blood platelets, virus and bacterium detection, blood distribution, and other administrative procedures, said a spokesperson of the hospital.
The application also transfers information to the main servers instantly from external blood donation campaigns through a 3G network. It also applies a secure code to ensure privacy, said Al Mulla. A similar system is already running at Abu Dhabi Blood Bank at Shaikh Khalifa Medical City.
He said eProgesa maintains a database with previous donors’ names and contact information and analyses and archives all the data, giving a clear picture of the bank’s requirements. “It also helps us to reach out donors when a specific blood type is needed or when we need them to take part in special campaigns,” he added.
The system also categorises the bank’s blood donation events according to date, location, blood type and number of participants, said the director.
Tawam Hospital, which has been running in affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine, is a part of the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) that is responsible for the curative activities of all the public hospitals and clinics in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
By Aftab Kazmi Bureau Chief
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