Is there a bone marrow registry in Egypt?

Egypt ordered a study of a donor registry law in May 2026. [9]

We couldn’t open the website of VACSERA (Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines), Egypt when we tried on Oct 11, 2026. That tells us nothing about whether it offers a way to join.

We couldn’t open the website of Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 when we tried on Oct 11, 2026. That tells us nothing about whether it offers a way to join.

We couldn’t open one other official page when we tried on Oct 11, 2026. That tells us nothing about whether it offers a way to join.

South Africa’s two registries take only people who live in South Africa: on Oct 11, 2026, DKMS Africa’s form asked first whether you live there, and SABMR excluded anyone not living there, so people in Egypt can’t join either from home. [6, 7]

Without a local registry, Egyptian centers turned to half-matched family donors: the 2020 paper said the teams had done 43 haploidentical transplants since June 2015 to make up for it. [14]

Masrawy reported in January 2025 that Egypt’s health minister wanted to end waiting lists for bone marrow transplants, with 100 more transplant beds due by January 2026. [16]

Parlmany reported in April 2025 that Egypt’s health minister told the prime minister that bone marrow transplants for health insurance patients rose from 856 in 2022 to 972 in 2024, at seven university hospitals, and that Egypt had 20 transplant units with 191 rooms across seven governorates. [17]

At the same April 2025 meeting, Egypt’s prime minister, Mostafa Madbouly, directed 500 million Egyptian pounds a year to add bone marrow transplant rooms at Health Ministry hospitals, whose own units are at Nasser Institute, Sheikh Zayed Specialized Hospital and the Dar El Salam Harmal oncology center, Parlmany reported. [17]

The Cairo Governorate portal, relaying the health ministry’s spokesman in May 2026, said Egypt’s Health Minister had ordered a specialized committee to study legislative amendments aimed at creating a national registry for non-related bone marrow donors. [9]

Sada Elbalad reported on May 3, 2026 that Egypt’s planned registry is meant for patients who have no genetically matched donor in their own family, and that the same meeting discussed a national platform for paired kidney and liver donation between families. [18]