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Is there a bone marrow registry in the Comoros?

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As of , no bone marrow donor registry signs up people who live in the Comoros. Comorian children with cancer are often treated in Réunion: about a third of the CHU of Saint-Denis’s pediatric cancer patients arrive by evacuation from Mayotte, most often Comorian, a 2021 report said. 9

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Comoros at a glance
PlaceComoros (جزر القمر, Comores) 13
RegionEastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa 7
PopulationAbout 850,000 (2023) 8
RegistryNone found as of 5 6
World donor searchNo organization based in the Comoros lists adult donors or cord blood units in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 6
TransplantsThe Comoros has no stem cell transplant service that we found. In 2011 a report for AFD said El Maarouf, the national referral hospital in Moroni, didn’t always have running water, patients paid for their own medicines and supplies, and only 12 of its patients were evacuated to Mayotte’s hospital in 2008. 10
Where we looked6 places, in English, French and Arabic
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What we found in the Comoros

Comorian children with cancer are often treated in Réunion, a 2021 report said. 9

WhereLanguageFindingDate
World Marrow Donor AssociationEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, WMDA’s map of member registries showed none based in the Comoros, and no organization based in the Comoros listed donor records in WMDA’s Search & Match. 5 6
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  • Comoros health ministry French ·
  • Web search French and Arabic · 2 searches,

Masiwa reported in July 2023 that emergency care at El-Maarouf hospital in Moroni, the Comoros, was overwhelmed every day, and that one patient had been evacuated to Réunion for radiotherapy. 12

A March 2011 report for France’s development agency, AFD, found that most foreign patients treated in Réunion’s hospitals came from the Union of the Comoros, arriving through medical evacuations via Mayotte. 10

Can people in the Comoros join a registry abroad?

South Africa’s two registries don’t take people living in the Comoros: on Oct 11, 2026, DKMS Africa’s form asked first whether you live in South Africa, and SABMR excluded anyone not living there. DKMS Africa takes other nationals only after 18 months living in South Africa. 1 2 3

Has the Comoros announced a registry or a law?

The Comoros has announced a new national hospital, not a donor registry: La Gazette des Comores reported on Oct 9, 2025 that the new El-Maarouf university hospital in Moroni, with nearly 600 beds and World Bank support through the Compass project, was finished but closed, after openings announced for December 2024 and July 2025. 11

Questions about the Comoros

Are bone marrow or stem cell transplants done in the Comoros?

The Comoros has no stem cell transplant service that we found. In 2011 a report for AFD said El Maarouf, the national referral hospital in Moroni, didn’t always have running water, patients paid for their own medicines and supplies, and only 12 of its patients were evacuated to Mayotte’s hospital in 2008. 10

Can a hospital in the Comoros search abroad for a donor?

At the CHU in Saint-Denis, an educator from Mayotte who speaks the Comorian languages helps families from the Comoros through a child’s cancer treatment, and France’s state medical aid covers a foreign child’s care from arrival until the return home, the service’s head wrote in 2021. 9

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Sources

How we check

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Registries

  1. SABMR. Donor Exclusion Criteria - SABMR.
  2. DKMS Africa. Registration (1/11) - first eligibility screen.
  3. DKMS Africa. Blood stem cell registration form for non-sa citizens.

Official bodies

  1. Comoros health ministry. Site not found · DreamHost. Unavailable when read

Figures and lists

  1. World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
  2. WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.
  3. United Nations Statistics Division. Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49): Overview (English table).
  4. UN DESA Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024: Total population by sex (CSV).

Other sources

  1. Cancer Control Francophone (Yves Réguerre, CHU de La Réunion). Cancérologie pédiatrique dans l'Océan Indien : une organisation singulière. 2021. Checked
  2. Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Prises en charge spécialisées des patients des pays de l'océan Indien dans les hôpitaux de la Réunion : état des lieux et propositions (document de travail 107). March 2011. Checked
  3. La Gazette des Comores. CHU El-Maarouf : À quand l'inauguration ? (n° 4974). Updated Oct 9, 2025. Checked
  4. Masiwa (Comores). Hopital El-Maarouf. Une radiographie de l'état sanitaire dégradé. Updated Jul 17, 2023. Checked
  5. Unicode CLDR. By-Type Chart: Locale Display Names:Territories (Africa). Checked