International Science and Technology Journal

Many IT-based applications are currently being used in healthcare organisations, although it is still very difficult to find information about blood donation centres in Libya, which are very important requirements in human life. The method used at the moment is for a volunteer to go, physically, to a medical centre or hospital, which is time-consuming and expensive. There is a need to develop a mobile-based application using Java Sever Pages (JSP) and MySQL technologies that will simplify the process. Using a WAP-enabled device, a user can easily register and request blood from the nearest medical centre, hence saving the lives of those individuals in need. In this study, mobile applications to apply a blood registration bank system in Libya has been successfully developed and tested in the Libyan Red Crescent - Al-Gubba and usefulness using formative evaluation by made comparisons between the current system and the proposed system