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Is there a bone marrow registry in Guyana?

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As of , no bone marrow donor registry signs up people who live in Guyana. Guyana’s Ministry of Health helps pay for some treatment abroad, including bone marrow treatment for cancer, and in Nov 2025 its minister urged faster work to open a national tissue-typing (HLA) laboratory. 6 7

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Guyana at a glance
RegionSouth America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Americas 12
PopulationAbout 826,000 (2023) 13
RegistryNone found as of 10
World donor searchNo organization based in Guyana lists adult donors or cord blood units in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 14
TransplantsGuyana’s transplant departments are at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, certified as a kidney transplant center in Mar 2024, which a Brazilian team set out to assess in Nov 2025. 5 7
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What we found in Guyana

Guyana was still setting up its tissue-typing laboratory in 2025. 7

WhereLanguageFindingDate
World Marrow Donor AssociationEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, no organization based in Guyana was on WMDA’s member map or in its organization database. 10 11
Ministry of Health GuyanaEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, searches of Guyana’s Ministry of Health site for “bone marrow” and “stem cell” found only its medical treatment assistance information and unrelated programs, with no donor registry. 6 8 9
Caribbean Bone Marrow RegistryEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, the Caribbean Bone Marrow Registry, based in Florida, asked $80 for typing from people of Caribbean descent; it isn’t listed in WMDA’s Search & Match, and nothing we read says it serves people living in Guyana. 3
Web searchEnglishNothing to add

Can people in Guyana join a registry abroad?

People living in Guyana can’t join NMDP, which on Oct 15, 2026 signed up only residents of the U.S., its territories and freely associated states, and Gift of Life says it typically does not register donors from other countries. 1 2

Are stem cell transplants done in Guyana?

Guyana’s Ministry of Health bought the equipment for a national HLA laboratory in 2025 for USD 150,000, including a Luminex machine, and 15 laboratory staff trained on it from Feb 24 to 28, 2025 at the National Public Health Reference Laboratory; in Mar 2025, HLA tests for transplant patients in Guyana were still done abroad. 4

Has Guyana announced a registry or a law?

On Nov 10, 2025, Guyana and Brazil met to strengthen Guyana’s organ donation and transplant program, with Guyana’s Human Organ and Tissue Transplant Agency (HOATTA). 7

Guyana’s Human Organ and Tissue Transplant Agency (HOATTA), which promotes, coordinates and regulates organ and tissue donation and transplants in Guyana, was set up under the Guyana Human Organ and Tissue Transplant Act of 2021. 4

Questions about Guyana

Can a hospital in Guyana search abroad for a donor?

Guyana’s Ministry of Health pays for care in private hospitals in Guyana or overseas only for services the public sector doesn’t offer, and every request goes through the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, on the advice of the doctors there. 6

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Sources

How we check

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Registries

  1. NMDP. Join the donor registry | NMDP (Formerly Be The Match).
  2. Gift of Life Marrow Registry. FAQ - Gift of Life.
  3. Caribbean Bone Marrow Registry. Caribbean Bone Marrow Registry (home).
  4. High Commission of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana (South Africa). Guyana Advances Transplant Program with Establishment of HLA Laboratory. Updated Mar 12, 2025. Checked
  5. Department of Public Information, Guyana. Human Organ and Tissue Transplant Agency (HOATTA). Checked

Official bodies

  1. Ministry of Health Guyana. Medical Treatment.
  2. Ministry of Health Guyana. Guyana, Brazil Partner to Strengthen Organ Donation and Transplantation Programme. Updated Nov 10, 2025.
  3. Ministry of Health Guyana. Search results: bone marrow.
  4. Ministry of Health Guyana. Search results: stem cell.

Figures and lists

  1. World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
  2. WMDA (Share, organisation data public access). Database.
  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).
  5. WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.