Is there a bone marrow registry in Bangladesh?

A 2026 Bangladeshi medical review names a national donor registry as a priority. [9]

India’s national registries don’t take people who live in Bangladesh: on Oct 15, 2026, DKMS Foundation India still registered permanent residents of India only, and DATRI’s form still asked whether you live in India. [1, 2]

Dhaka Medical College Hospital restarted its bone marrow transplant service in October 2025 after five years, The Financial Express reported, and Bangladesh’s health adviser said about 10,000 patients need a transplant but only about 1,000 are treated each year. [11]

The Business Standard reported in January 2026 that TMSS Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Centre had done the first bone marrow transplant in Bogura, in northern Bangladesh, bringing the treatment outside Dhaka. [12]

Asgar Ali Hospital in Dhaka became the first private hospital in Bangladesh allowed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to do bone marrow transplants, The Business Standard reported in December 2025; the approval must be renewed every year. [13]

BSMMU in Dhaka did its first bone marrow transplant in January 2024, and its vice-chancellor said the procedure costs Tk3.22 lakh there, against Tk6 to 12 lakh in private hospitals and Tk20 to 30 lakh abroad, The Business Standard reported. [14]

In March 2015, The Daily Star reported that the backers of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s transplant unit hoped to set up Bangladesh’s first bone marrow registry, the Bangladesh Marrow Donor Programme; no later report of it opening turned up in our searches. [10]