A Blood bank information system for the Ministry of Health of Kenya
Date
2021
Authors
Munyao, Gloriah Mwongeli
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Publisher
Strathmore University
Abstract
Blood is one of the most critical elements and is referred to as river of life. It is common to hear of emergency situations where individuals require blood. The Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service (KNBTS) is the institution mandated by the Kenyan Ministry of Health (MoH) to coordinate and manage the national blood transfusion programme. Blood has a short shelf life of 35 days and its demand is always high, therefore the challenge comes in when trying to endure its constant supply. Kenya is facing a shortage of blood supplies in its hospitals, and blood banks with relatives and friends of patients increasingly having to put out calls for people to donate. This project addresses the problem facing Kenyan blood banks which is the lack of computerized technology and sustainable blood donation strategies to perform all its duties, one of which is to monitor and evaluate the standards in respect of blood donation, processing, movement and distribution of blood for the purpose of efficient blood transfusion. Developing a system to support donation, processing, and distribution of blood as well movement of blood is a solution the project aims to implement. It applies the Prototype Methodology since the approach can be used for development of a user interface of different applications independently of the type – desktop, web-based, mobile. The user interface is crucial in the development of software applications. If it is well designed it could help users to achieve their goals, to satisfy them and to encourage them to use the system. Software prototypes support development teams to explore usability, usefulness, and acceptability of their projects. The solution has been developed to be both mobile and web based. The data will be stored through MySQL DBMS because it is a user-friendly GUI that contains clients such as PHP My Admin which the project intends to use to store data
Description
An Information system project 2 proposal submitted to the School of Computing and Engineering Science in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Bachelor’s Degree in Business Information Technology of Strathmore University
Keywords
Blood bank, Informayion system, Ministry of health