e-Raktkosh:
The Union Health Ministry is looking at integrating the country’s Rare Donor Registry with the national online platform for blood bank management and blood availability information called e-Rakt Kosh.
- e-Raktkosh is an online blood bank management system implemented under the National Health Mission.
- It is the official portal for all blood-related services in India.
- It provides details on blood availability, blood banks, and blood donation camps across the country.
- More than 3800 blood centers are registered on e-Raktkosh from across the country.
- It has been developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
- It has been developed with a modular and scalable approach with configurable rule-based architecture, allowing customization to easily incorporate specific requirements from nationwide stakeholders.
- e-Raktkosh has six major components for management of the blood donation life cycle:
- The biometric Donor Management System for identifying, tracking, and blocking donors based on the donor’s health, donation history, etc.
- It provides features such as blood grouping, TTI screening, antibody screening, component preparation,, as per the defined processes and rules.
- A centralized Blood Inventory Management System for keeping track of the blood stock across numerous blood banks.
- Bio-Medical Waste Management System for disposal of discarded blood and other waste generated during this process.
- Generation of rare blood group donor registries and the generation of regular repeat donors.
- Alert and Notification System.
