FDA Suspends Licences Of Three Mumbai Blood Centres Over Titan Watches Gifted To Donors

Mumbai, Oct 14 (UNI) The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended the licences of three blood centres in Mumbai for three to five days for giving Titan watches to blood donors in violation of national guidelines. The action was taken against the Indian Red Cross Society Blood Centre, the blood centre at Grant Medical College and Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals in Byculla, and the B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital Blood Centre at Mumbai Central. According to an FDA press release issued on Wednesday, the Young Star Committee of Altamount Road had organised a blood donation camp in Mumbai…