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Is there a bone marrow registry in El Salvador?
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As of , we haven’t found a bone marrow donor registry that people who live in El Salvador can join. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. El Salvador’s new Hospital Rosales has added marrow transplants, which patients previously had to seek abroad, to the public health system, El Diario de Hoy reported in Jun 2026. 7
| Region | Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Americas 4 |
|---|---|
| Population | About 6.3 million (2023) 5 |
| Registry | None found as of 2 3 |
| World donor search | No organization based in El Salvador lists adult donors or cord blood units in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 2 |
| Transplants | El Diario de Hoy reported that at the new Hospital Rosales’ opening on Jun 1, 2026, El Salvador’s president said marrow transplants had never been done in the country for lack of trained specialists, so experts would be brought in to work alongside Salvadoran doctors until they could do them. 7 |
| Where we looked | 4 places, in English and Spanish |
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What we found in El Salvador
El Diario de Hoy reported Hospital Rosales’ marrow transplants in El Salvador in 2026. 7
| Where | Language | Finding | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Marrow Donor Association | English | On Oct 11, 2026, no organization based in El Salvador was on WMDA’s member map or in its organization database. 3 6 | |
| Web search | Spanish | On Oct 11, 2026, a Spanish search found no registry in El Salvador; El Diario de Hoy reported in Jun 2026 that only 6 in 100 people had marked themselves as organ donors on their identity document (DUI). 7 | |
| Ministerio de Salud de El Salvador (MINSAL) | Spanish | On Oct 11, 2026, the homepage of El Salvador’s Ministry of Health had nothing about marrow or stem cell donors. 1 | |
| Web search | Spanish | Nothing to add |
Are stem cell transplants done in El Salvador?
Diario El Mundo reported on Jun 2, 2026 that the new Hospital Rosales’ hemato-oncology area had 48 chemotherapy chairs and was planned to do marrow transplants; its director said the service wasn’t offered anywhere in El Salvador and that patients who needed it traveled to South America. 9
Has El Salvador announced a registry or a law?
El Salvador’s government launched a free transplant program at the new Hospital Rosales in Jun 2026, including donation after death, El Diario de Hoy reported; La Prensa reported that the new hospital was built on the site of San Salvador’s former maternity hospital. 7 8
El Diario de Hoy reported that the new Hospital Nacional Rosales, opened on Jun 1, 2026 with 3,200 new staff and 502 inpatient beds, listed bone marrow transplants with robotic surgery and a hybrid operating room among its main services. 10
Questions about El Salvador
Can a hospital in El Salvador search abroad for a donor?
Before the new Hospital Rosales, Salvadoran patients who needed a marrow transplant had to seek treatment abroad, at costs from $9,000 to $174,000, El Diario de Hoy reported in Jun 2026. 7
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Official bodies
- Ministerio de Salud de El Salvador (MINSAL). Ministerio de Salud - Sitio Oficial del Ministerio de Salud de El Salvador. Checked
Figures and lists
- WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.
- World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
- United Nations Statistics Division. Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49): Overview (English table).
- UN DESA Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024: Total population by sex (CSV).
- WMDA (Share, Organisation data public access). Database.
Other sources
- El Diario de Hoy. Hospital Rosales activa donación tras fallecer y el 94% no aparece como donante en su DUI. Updated Jun 13, 2026.
- La Prensa (Honduras). Nayib Bukele inaugura nuevas instalaciones del Hospital Rosales en El Salvador. June 2026.
- Diario El Mundo (El Salvador). Bukele inaugura nuevo Hospital Rosales con tecnología de punta. Updated Jun 2, 2026. Checked
- El Diario de Hoy (elsalvador.com). El Presidente Bukele inauguró el nuevo hospital Rosales. Updated Jun 1, 2026. Checked