Is there a bone marrow registry in Kyrgyzstan?

24.kg reported in Aug 2024 that Kyrgyzstan had begun transplants of patients’ own cells. [10]

On Oct 15, 2026, Russia’s Federal Bone Marrow Donor Registry and Rusfond’s national registry signed up only people living in Russia, and Türk Kızılay required a Turkish identity number and an address record in Türkiye to join TÜRKÖK, so none of the three is open to people living in Kyrgyzstan. [1, 2, 4]

Kaktus.media reported in August 2026 that the children’s oncology department at Kyrgyzstan’s National Center for Maternal and Child Health had received an apheresis machine and a photopheresis system worth more than 24 million som from the As-Safa charity foundation, and that its doctors had trained in Malatya, Türkiye. [11]

A stem cell transplant abroad can cost a family from Kyrgyzstan up to $100,000, Sultan Stambekov, head of children’s oncology at the National Center for Maternal and Child Health, told Kaktus.media in August 2026. [11]

Doctors at Kyrgyzstan’s National Center for Maternal and Child Health completed the country’s first successful bone marrow transplant for a child, using the patient’s own cells and no visiting team, Kaktus.media reported in December 2024. [12]

The National Center for Maternal and Child Health in Kyrgyzstan began its 2024 transplants with an apheresis machine for collecting stem cells and the medicines and equipment supplied by the state enterprise Kyrgyzpharmacia, 24.kg reported in August 2024. [10]

24.kg reported in August 2024 that Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Health said transplants using donor cells could be possible in the near future; we found no announcement of a stem cell donor registry in Kyrgyzstan. [10]