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The Central 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.

About e-Raktkosh

• It 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 Objectives

• Safe and Adequate Blood Supplies
• Reduced Turnaround Time
• Preventing Wastage of Blood
• Restrict Professional Donors
• Networking of Blood Banks
• Donor Repository

e-Raktkosh Features

• Web-Based Application
• Aadhar Linkage
• Decision Support
• Enforces Guidelines
• Dashboard
• Statutory Reports

e-Raktkosh’s 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, etc., 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.

Source: TH