Is there a bone marrow registry in French Polynesia?

France’s registry lists two overseas donor centers, at the university hospital in Fort-de-France for 971 to 973 and in Saint-Denis for Réunion, and on Oct 16, 2026 neither listed French Polynesia’s 987; the registry posts its saliva kit to a French address, and a search of its site for ‘Polynésie’ found nothing. [1, 3, 4]

France’s registry has overseas donor centers for 971 to 974, none for French Polynesia. [1]

The blood transfusion center of the Centre Hospitalier de la Polynésie française got a new apheresis machine in October 2019 and imported no blood products that year, the hospital’s 2019 annual report says; read on Oct 16, 2026, the report says nothing about marrow donors. [5]

The French Polynesia hospital center’s seven-bed hematology unit treats adults with leukemias, myelomas and lymphomas and admitted 238 patients in 2019, down from 260 in 2018, its annual report says; the report doesn’t mention marrow or stem cell transplants. [5]

With oncology, hematology and radiotherapy on site, most patients from French Polynesia no longer have to travel to mainland France for cancer treatment, the hospital center said in its 2019 report, which also counts 18 kidney transplants that year and more work for its HLA tissue-typing laboratory because of transplants. [5]

The Assembly of French Polynesia adopted the territory’s first laws on blood transfusion in the first half of 2019, the hospital center’s annual report says. [5]