MIT students launch digital platform to link blood donors and patients
The Hindu
‘Initiative will go to a long way in meeting the blood shortage in the country’
Students of the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), a wing of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) in collaboration with KMC, Manipal, launched a digital platform ‘Sociio Ichor’ on Saturday for connecting donors with patients in need of blood.
The platform also displays live requests of the patients who are in need of blood and its components. The potential donor can register on the platform to get connected to the patients in need.
The platform has put all digital privacy measures in place to keep the donors and the receivers’ information safe. Starting from Manipal, the team envisions to spread across the nation and implement blood delivery system in its future plans.
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