The problem MedLinePro solves

Problem
In India everyday more than 12,000 people fail to get blood due to shortage. There are many potential donors who are willing to donate their blood but are not able to connect with the needy people during emergency. Due to lack of coordination between hospitals and blood banks more than 1 million unit of blood components are wasted. During emergencies finding a donor immediately is highly difficult and making a blood request to the blood banks consumes a huge amount of time.

Objectives

1. To provide a platform to connect the blood donors and recipients.
2. To maintain the information of availability of blood in nearby blood banks.
3. To help recipients make requests to blood banks/hospitals directly.
4. To provide the details of currently running blood donation campaigns and promote awareness.

What it does
The web app enables hospitals/NGOs to register and post their status of availability of blood of different blood groups. This information is stored in our server and displayed to users who need help. Users can register themselves and look at the information posted by the organisations and request blood directly.

Challenges we ran into

1.We faced difficulty in using third-party hospital APIs.
2.This was our first time working on backend
3.We wanted to share the donor’s live location but had a tough time integrating the Google Maps API.

4. Understanding how to implement the idea through blockchain was difficult.
   5.Biggest challenge was compiling everything in such a short period.