Mumbai, Nov. 6 -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday suspended the operations of the blood bank at Dr R N Cooper Hospital for two days due to alleged lapses in maintaining proper documentation. The hospital did not challenge the suspension and instead made alternative arrangements to ensure that its operations were not affected. "The hospital needed about 10 units of blood for its regular operations, which were managed from its sister facility, the HBT Trauma Care Hospital in Jogeshwari," said an official. According to the FDA, an inspection found several violations, including the absence of an approved registered nurse and a medical social worker at the blood bank. Donor selection forms were also found to be incomplete, with several missing donors' names and addresses. The centre had also failed to maintain updated equipment logbooks for its ELISA reader, ELISA washer and blood component separation centrifuge. In addition, details of a blood donation camp held in August had not been entered in the centre's master register, as required. The apheresis machine was also found to be non-functional during the FDA's annual routine inspection. FDA commissioner Tukaram Mundhe defended the action, saying that maintaining records was critical for traceability of blood stocks....