AÑO
2023
CATEGORÍA
Cuerpo
OBJETIVOS
Salud y bienestar, Igualdad de género, Industria, innovación e infraestructura
PAL. CLAVE
healthcare, blood bank, digital platform
PAÍS
United States of America
CRÉDITOS
Dennis Addo
LINK
https://waladigital.io/
Wala Digital
On-Demand Blood Tech Platform
How does it work?
Wala Digital provides hospitals and Blood Banks with a comprehensive digital platform for quickly ordering, receiving and managing blood and blood product inventory.
It is an integrated digital platform which leverages AI to reliably and transparently connect both the supply and demand sides in the blood supply chain in Africa, starting from Ghana and expanding over time to other developing countries, for timely life savings transfusions.
The "Wala tribe" is being built to supply committed donors. By leveraging AI to incentivize the Wala tribe with digital tokens which can be exchanged for medical services. On the demand side, a marketplace is being built to allow hospitals to share critical blood resources for lifesaving transfusions. The AI uses advanced analytics to predict blood shortage at medical facilities and mobilizes the Wala tribe for action.
Why is it needed?
Ghana needs 16,000 pints of blood each month, but less than 4,000 pints of blood are available. Wala's goal is to help supply over 20,000 pints of blood every week in the next 3-years for critical transfusions using the 'Wala tribe' of committed and repeat blood donors.
In Africa, 500,000 women die each year during childbirth from lack of blood. Wala aims to help reduce 50% of maternal deaths from post-delivery bleeding due to the unavailability of blood. This will help reduce maternal mortality in developing countries to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goal target of less than 70/per 100,000 live births through the timely blood supply.
How does it improve life?
Wala Digital Health does not just answer a critical need but provides a revolutionary technology solution that will change the blood supply culture.
They are tackling the blood supply problem using social networks to build a "tribe" of committed and repeated blood donors. It is a platform that connects hospitals to meet demand shortfall, so a digital marketplace can manage, request and share blood.