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Welcome
"Welcome to Nair Hospital Blood Centre, a place where compassion meets care and every drop of blood becomes a lifeline. We are committed to ensuring safe, timely and life-saving blood support for patients in need. Your trust and contribution help us uphold the highest standards of quality and humanity. Together, we save lives every day."
Welcome
B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital also affiliated with Topiwala National Medical College is the parent institution where this blood centre, a key clinical service operates
Vision
To be a trusted centre of excellence in transfusion services ensuring ethical, safe, adequate and equitable access to safe and quality blood and blood components for every patient in need.
Mission
• To ensure safe, effective, and timely availability of blood and blood components through standardized
and validated processes and to comply with FDA, NABH and SBTC regulatory requirements for donor selection,
testing, storage, issue, and transfusion practices.
• To promote voluntary, non-remunerated blood donation and maintain an ethically recruited donor pool.
• To implement quality assurance, documentation, traceability, and hemovigilance across all blood bank activities.
• To ensure patient safety and donor care through trained personnel, infection control, and risk-management practices
and to maintain 24×7 emergency transfusion supportwith accountability and transparency in service delivery.
• To support education, training, and continuous improvement in transfusion medicine within the public healthcare system.
Staff Members
Professor and Head of Pathology Department
Dr.Meenakshi B
MD Pathology
Exp: 33 years 2 months
Additional Professor & In-Charge Blood centre June 2025 onwards
Dr.Sweety Shinde
MD Pathology
Exp: 23 years
Additional Professor
Dr.Jyothi Shetty
MD Pathology
Exp: 20 years
Additional Professor
Dr.Heena Desai
MD Pathology
Exp: 16 years
Blood transfusion Officer (BTO)
Dr.Nitin Valvi
MBBS, DPB
Exp: 16 years
MSW/CDO
Mr.Kantilal Pawar
MSW
Exp: 17 years
MSW/CDO
Mr.Shirish Valvi
MSW
Exp: 4 years
MSW/CDO
Mr.Divesh Wagh
MSW
Exp: 3 months
Laboratory technician
Mrs.Shalaka Desai
BSc DMLT
Exp: 18 years
Laboratory technician
Mrs.Kranti Sawant
BSc DMLT
Exp: 18 years
Laboratory technician
Mrs.Nishigandha Date
BSc DMLT
Exp: 18 years
Laboratory technician
Mrs.Chhaya Bihare
BSc DMLT
Exp: 14 years
Laboratory technician
Mrs.Prachi Nalawade
BSc DMLT
Exp: 9 years
Laboratory technician
Mr.Pravin Kamble
BSc DMLT
Exp: 9 years
Laboratory technician
Mrs.Sonal Parkar
BSc DMLT
Exp: 9 years
Laboratory technician
Mrs.Manasvi Pednekar
BSc DMLT
Exp: 4 years
Laboratory technician
Ms.Sheetal Giri
BSc DMLT
Exp: 3 years
Laboratory technician
Mrs.Siddhika Nalawade
BSc DMLT
Exp: 9 months
Laboratory technician
Mr.Abdul Rehman
BSc DMLT
Exp: 3 months
Laboratory technician (MDACS)
Mrs.Madhura Patkar
BSc DMLT
Exp: 11 years
Laboratory technician (MDACS)
Mrs.Navneeta Karbele
BSc DMLT
Exp: 11 years
Laboratory technician (MDACS)
Mrs.Deepali Tarkar
BSc DMLT
Exp: 11 years
Counsellor (MDACS)
Mrs.Preeti Bhandari
MA Psychology
Exp: -
Staff nurse
Mrs.Vishakha More
GNM
Exp: 1 year
Staff nurse
Mrs.Jayshree Chandivade
GNM
Exp: 5 months
Laboratory Assistant
Mr.Babangir Gosavi
8th standard
Exp: 17 years
Laboratory Assistant
Mr.Pramod Ghodake
8th standard
Exp: 9 years
Laboratory Assistant
Mr.Suryakant Sawant
BA
Exp: 13 years
Laboratory Assistant
Mr.Pramod Apandkar
8th standard
Exp: 20 years
Laboratory Assistant
Mr.Sachin Salgaonkar
HSC
Exp: 9 years
Laboratory Assistant
Ms.Sanika Patole
PG DMLT
Exp: 2 months
Laboratory Assistant
Ms.Harshada Aalam
B MLT
Exp: 2 months
Clerk
Mrs.Sadiya Ansari
MA literature
Exp: 9 years
Clerk
Ms.Ekta Mohite
BSc IT
Exp: 1 year
Laboratory attendant
Mr.Rohidas Rathod
BA
Exp: 3 months
Laboratory attendant
Mrs.Rekha Kedare
SSC
Exp: 3 months
Laboratory attendant
Mr.Vinod Joshi
MA
Exp: 3 months
Laboratory attendant
Mr.Amol Patil
HSC
Exp: 2 years
Sweeper
Mr.Kaluram Mhatre
SSC
Exp: 20 years
Sweeper
Mr.Santosh Kadam
SSC
Exp: -
Servant
Mr.Roshan Mirgal
FY BCom
Exp: 2 years
Services & Availability
The blood bank operates 24×7 to support patients and blood donors at all times. The following are the services provided:
- Blood grouping for voluntary blood donors
- Blood grouping & cross-matching for inpatients
- Direct and indirect Coombs test
- Organization of outdoor voluntary blood donation drives
- Indoor voluntary blood donation
- Serological testing namely testing for malaria, syphilis, HIV, HBsAg and HCV of the collected blood units
- Preparation and issue of blood & blood components namely red cell concentrate (RCC), Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP),
Normal human plasma (NHP), Random donor platelets (RDP) and cryoprecipitate
- Single donor platelet (SDP) by Apheresis procedure
- Rh titres for pregnant women.
Quality & Accreditation
The Blood Centre at B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital and Topiwala National Medical College has received NABH accreditation from July 2025-July 2028. This means high standards in testing, handling, and transfusion practices for both donors and recipients.
Also, the Blood centre is approved as per Food and Drug administration (FDA) norms.
FDA license is valid till 31 December 2027.
Contact Details
Location
OPD-2-32, Located on the 2nd Floor of the New OPD Building, B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital, Dr. A. L. Nair Road, Mumbai Central, Mumbai – 400008, Maharashtra, India.
nairbloodbank@gmail.com
022-23027644 / 022-23027645 / 022-23027542