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Thursday, 5 April 2012
World’s largest web based blood data bank launched
ALIGARH: Last year
75-year-old Sudarshan
Bhatia lost her yougest son
36-year-old Lt Col Nitin
Bhatia in an Army helicopter
crash in Sikkim.
The tragedy shattered
her life, but she chose to
fi ght on, like her son. She
decided that she would do
something that would give
a fresh lease of life to millions
of patients. And that
was how the idea of launching
a project to develop the
world’s largest web based
data bank of blood donors
was born.
The project ‘India Blood
Group pages (IBGP)’
was launched today by an
90-year-old woman in the
city where Nitin Bhatia
was born and brought up.
The work is being done by
the Nitin Bhatia Memorial
Trust headed by Ms Bhatia.
Every year, the country
requires about 4 crore units
of blood, out of which only
a meager 40 lakh units of
blood are available.
Every two seconds someone
needs blood and more
than 38,000 blood donations
are needed every day.
The India Blood Group
pages(IBGP)’pages, to be
known as directories, have
been divided citywise. To
begin with the Aligarh Blood
Group Directory(www.
ibp.in/aligarh) will be developed.
Work for Ambala
Blood Group Pages (www.
ibgp.in/ambala) is also being
initiated.
These directories will
carry names, addresses and
blood types of thousands of
people (city wide).
Once on the web, details
could be found through the
user-friendly, front end,
web-based browser. “There
are many more blood group
directories on the web in
India but the idea is to enhance
the user-friendly base.
These directories are a very
good attempt but we wish to
organise the data in much
more effi cient way. Current
data is either very small in
numbers or is extremely
diffi cult for individuals to
get a hold of,” said Yogesh
Bhatia, elder brother of late
Nitin Bhatia.
Yogesh, a product of Aligarh
Muslim University,
lives in Canada now, and
mother lives in the US. Both
have come here to launch
the project.
He said the project would
be taken in most populous
cities of India which are 192
in numbers but they would
choose around 150 cities out
of these 192 based on actual
requirement and usefulness
of the project.
The project in Aligarh and
Ambala was a pilot project,
and they were assuming an
average cost Rs 5 lakh for
one city, he said. It will take
almost 10 years to compile
data for 150 cities.
Very interactive software
was being developed
and once compiled this data
would be available for direct
use by common man.
The costs will be towards
organising camps, publicity,
development of data based
software for internet (work
has started in Delhi.), testing
of blood groups, precamp,
lectures in various
schools and putting work
on web (cost of hosting and
web site development) etc,
he said.
At present the costs are
being met by the family out
of their own savings, he
said. Such kind of city specifi
c directory will be very
useful at the time of emergency
if the blood type was
not available in the bank at
that moment, said Yogesh.
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