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GIS based Donor Information System Phone calls to friends and relatives with a great deal of anxiety are quite common during medical emergencies arising out of accidents or illness or other such medical conditions. Any help from unknown quarters comes as a big relief. But one is often caught scrambling during such critical times for much-needed information, the information regarding donors. It is needless to emphasize the plight of those looking out for blood donors especially of rare blood groups during such medical emergencies. If such is the situation with information on blood donors, imagine the nightmare of those looking for information on donors of other types such as bone marrow, kidney, liver, lungs, eyes etc not getting the required information at the appropriate time. Everyday thousands of lives are lost for want of such critical information at the appropriate time. When lives are at stake, every second counts and words cannot describe the plight of the near and dear ones, ru...

Can GIS save lives? Medical geography aka health geography, is an area of medical research that incorporates geographic techniques into the study of health around the world and the spread of diseases. It also includes studies on the impact of climate and location on an individual's health as well as the distribution of health services. Medical geography is an important field because it aims to provide an understanding of health problems and improve the health of people worldwide based on the various geographic factors influencing them. Health geography is the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease, and health care (Wikipedia) During the times of the Greek doctor Hippocrates (5th-4th centuries BCE), people have studied the effect of location on one’s health. For example, early medicine studied the differences in diseases experienced by people living at high versus low elevation. It was easily understood that those at liv...