Is there a bone marrow registry in Fiji?

Fiji’s Overseas Referral Committee sends patients abroad for care not available at home. [5]

FBC News reported on Aug 2, 2025 that Fiji’s blood bank stays under pressure because public donations are irregular, and that the Ministry of Health writes to large donors such as Goodman Fielder, the Red Cross and church groups when stocks fall to a critical level; the report says nothing about marrow donors. [20]

The Fiji Red Cross Society and Fiji’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services signed an agreement in Labasa on June 17, 2023 to recruit voluntary blood donors across Fiji; the Red Cross’s report on it says nothing about marrow donors. [18]

At New Zealand’s 2023 Census, 25,038 people identified as Fijian, Stats NZ says. Those living in New Zealand can join its registry at 18 to 35, but neither that registry, which delivers its kits across New Zealand, nor Stem Cell Donors Australia, which asks for Medicare, describes a way to join from Fiji itself, as checked on Oct 16, 2026. [1, 2, 3, 11]

Kaniva Tonga, in a report shared with RNZ, said in April 2019 that India’s Apollo hospital group had been receiving patient referrals from Fiji for the past six years; the report doesn’t mention stem cell transplants. [17]

Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva, set up in 1923, is Fiji’s largest and oldest public hospital and its main tertiary referral center, serving Fiji and the wider Pacific, the Ministry of Health and Medical Services says; its list of services doesn’t include transplants. [9]

The Fiji Times reported in May 2020 that Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva set up a permanent blood bank in 1958, after relying on a list of 216 emergency blood donors in 1957; that was a register of blood donors, not a marrow donor registry. [19]

Fiji’s Minister for Health said in March 2014, at the Fiji Cancer Society’s relaunch, that the government had endorsed plans for a cancer hospital, described as the first of its kind among small Pacific island states, with help from the International Atomic Energy Agency. [10]