India, June 27 -- The JJ Hospital has been seeking to oust from its campus the Sir JJ Mahanagar blood bank, which is facing regulatory action from the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) over alleged violation of protocols, hospital sources told HIndustan Times.

The blood bank functions out of a 10,000-square feet heritage building within the JJ hospital premises, but has no connection with the Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, said hospital dean Dr Ajay Bhandarwar.

"We need the building for our expansion - for new departments like emergency medicine, transfusion medicine and geriatric medicine. We have been asking them to vacate the space for years, but to no avail," Dr Bhandarwar told HT.

The hospital has its own blood bank for its own pati...