A Novel Approach to Organize Blood Donation Camp and Blood Unit Wastage Management

Abstract

In the countries or areas where the supply-demand ratio of blood is not maintained, the medication process is being deteriorated, and this may be as fatal as death of the patients. It is being observed in different areas in different seasons or may be at the time of festival scarcity of blood may happen. On the other hand, if the blood donation camp is organized frequently, there may be a surplus of blood as it has expiry dates. Along with these issues, due to the transportation or mismanagement, blood units are wasted. These problems are addressed in this research work, and methodologies are proposed to determine the most suitable blood bank with respect to the blood donation camp. Further, a demand forecasting algorithm is used both for predicting the blood unit demand of every blood bank and for transferring excess blood units to the blood bank where it is needed the most, and also, for the efficient transportation of the blood units, taxicab geometry-based paths are employed.