Donor on Call: Now an Uber like app for real-time blood donation

Green Shakti foundation, a New Delhi-based NGO has launched Donor On Call, an Uber style app for real-time blood donor requests.
 

Donor on Call (DoC) mobile app is a technology based humanitarian service where matching blood group donors are located nearby the recipient on a real time basis.

On raising a blood request, it locates donors physically present nearby at that time (last spotted) and notifies them. The donor can then accept and coordinate or in an SOS situation, the requester may call the donor by touching a call button.

The objective of DoC is to minimise response time, reduce blood storage and refrigeration needs. It would result in saving precious blood from being wasted post expiry date. It illustrates a carbon friendly process of environment-health linkage- the donor being nearest can simply walk or reach within minutes.

Each donor is hence like a mobile blood bank.

The project is mentored by hematologist and stem cell physician Dr Dharma Choudhary.