{
  "id": 18337970,
  "title": "Maharashtra Suspends Licences Of 40 Blood Banks, Mumbai’s Cooper Hospital Blood Centre Among Those Facing Action",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/maharashtra-suspends-licences-of-40-blood-banks-mumbais-cooper",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-05T16:21:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/maharashtra-suspends-licences-of-40-blood-banks-mumbais-cooper-hospital-blood-centre-among-those-facing-action"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Mumbai's Cooper Hospital, a prominent civic-run teaching facility, faces a temporary suspension of its blood centre services from November 5 to 6. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered the closure, impacting patients requiring blood transfusions at Dr RN Cooper Hospital. Affected patients will need to seek transfusion-related requirements at HBT Trauma Hospital in Jogeshwari for those two days. Cooper Hospital, situated in Mumbai's western suburbs, operates with 697 beds and handles over 7.5 lakh outpatient visits annually, averaging more than 2,000 patients daily. The FDA's intensified scrutiny of blood banks and storage centres across Maharashtra has led to the suspension of 40 blood banks in the past seven months.",
  "summary": "Mumbai: Patients requiring blood transfusions at Dr RN Cooper Hospital will have to depend on the blood centre at HBT Trauma Hospital in Jogeshwari for two days, as the hospital's blood centre will remain shut on November 5 and 6 following a suspension order issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In a communication issued earlier this week, the blood centre informed the hospital dean…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}