Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 19:38:06 GMT -8
Donating blood is an act of love, however, not all people understand it; Only 3% of them donate blood voluntarily. According to data from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Mexico occupies one of the last places on the list of countries that donate blood voluntarily.
These figures reflect a lack of culture France Mobile Number List in society regarding blood donation, since it is an act that helps others; however, whether due to fear or even religion, the figures are very low and must be increase, since donating blood per person could save up to 3 lives.
For this reason, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that it is necessary to change this practice and encourage altruistic donation because every four seconds a person in Mexico needs blood donors, which means that 20 thousand people a day could die. if there was not enough blood.
Promote blood donation with technology
The Blooders platform was created to promote altruistic blood donation in Mexico. It was the brothers Javier and César Esquivel who designed it and decided to give it that name because it is a combination of the words blood and brother, “because when we donate we all have more than one blood brother.”
Blooders was born in 2014, first as a website and, later, as an application for Android and IOS, which sought to be a bridge between the donor and the person who needed blood. All you had to do was register, create a campaign and wait for donors.
They dreamed of having a strong impact with their Facebook page, however, at first they did not have the response they expected. Therefore, they began to create strategies to encourage people to become donors.
Many people choose not to donate because they are lengthy processes and have inflexible schedules. Therefore, the Esquivel brothers saw an opportunity and therefore began to idealize and improve this process.
It occurred to them to establish relationships with hospitals so that donors could schedule appointments from Blooders.
“ You register on our website, social networks or application; You review the requirements, schedule an appointment at one of the hospitals with which we have an agreement with the purpose of donating blood for one of the campaigns we have or for general donation, then a message will arrive in your email with the information for your appointment; What we want to achieve with this is to make the process more friendly for the donor, so that they enjoy it and make it a routine.”
Blooders currently has a “bloodbot”, which answers almost any question about any donation campaign, scheduling an appointment or requirements to be a donor.
It should be noted that on average, each human has between 4.5 and 5.5 liters of blood, which represents 8% of their body weight. Blood is mainly composed of plasma, platelets, red and white blood cells.