Is there a bone marrow registry in the Cayman Islands?

Tower reported the Cayman Islands’ last donor drives we found, in 2016. [12]

On Oct 16, 2026, DKMS UK said it can keep only donors who are full-time residents of the United Kingdom, and Anthony Nolan’s application asked whether you live in the UK; the Cayman Islands are a British Overseas Territory, not part of the UK. [2, 3]

The UK government’s travel advice says the Cayman Islands have 3 well-equipped hospitals on Grand Cayman and Faith Hospital on Cayman Brac, and that more serious cases are normally stabilized before being transferred to the USA. [6]

Tower reported in Jun 2016 that the Caribbean Bone Marrow Registry, which held drives in the Cayman Islands, was aiming for 1,000 donors by the end of that year; the registry isn’t listed in WMDA’s Search & Match. [13]

Cayman News Service reported in March 2018 that draft rules under the Human Tissue Transplant Law listed bone marrow among the tissues that could be donated, let only people aged 18 and older register as donors, and gave a Human Tissue Transplant Council the job of creating a donation register. [15]

Cayman Compass reported in May 2019 that the Human Tissue Transplant Law of 2013 and its 2018 regulations were in effect, but that the council, whose duties include establishing a donor registry, had met only once and could take about another year to become fully operational. [16]

Cayman Compass reported that 186 people registered with the Caribbean Bone Marrow Registry at the Cayman Islands Cancer Society’s Conquering Cancer health fair on Sept 19, 2015, with kits from the registry and a $10,000 donation from Maples and Calder covering the testing fees. [14]