Abstract:
The blood donation process is an incredibly safe medical practice. Still, beliefs, attitudes of people, and their level of awareness may affect it. In order to measure the level of awareness and knowledge among the people, a real-time cross-sectional study was organized at King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC). This was also done to detect the problems in the whole process of blood donation. The key problems reported for not donating blood were that donating blood did not cross their mind (32.4%) followed up with No time available in schedule for donation which added up to around 45%. Finally, the main reason being the difficulty in accessing the blood donation center which encompasses 61.3%. This is due to unawareness in the society regarding the blood donation process. Sound data-driven machine learning techniques can be used for predicting donations and supply needs which in turn can improve the entire supply chain.
