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Is there a bone marrow registry in Latvia?

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As of , we haven’t found a bone marrow donor registry that people who live in Latvia can join. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. Latvia’s medicines agency licenses Riga East Clinical University Hospital to collect and store blood stem cells from donors, but Latvia’s State Blood Donor Centre website has nothing about joining a donor registry. 3 7

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Latvia at a glance
PlaceLatvia (Latvija) 15
RegionNorthern Europe, Europe 10
PopulationAbout 1.9 million (2023) 11
RegistryNone found as of 8
World donor searchNo organization based in Latvia lists adult donors or cord blood units in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 12
TransplantsA license from Latvia’s State Agency of Medicines dated Jul 7, 2026, lets the hematology clinic of Riga East Clinical University Hospital collect, test, process and store blood stem cells and donor lymphocytes. 7
Where we looked6 places, in Latvian and English
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What we found in Latvia

Latvia’s State Blood Donor Centre has no stem cell donor registry information. 3

WhereLanguageFindingDate
World Marrow Donor AssociationEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, no organization based in Latvia appeared on the World Marrow Donor Association’s member map or in its organization database. 8 9
Valsts asinsdonoru centrs (State Blood Donor Centre, Latvia)LatvianOn Oct 11, 2026, none of the more than 800 web addresses in the sitemap of Latvia’s State Blood Donor Centre was about stem cell or bone marrow donation. 3
Valsts asinsdonoru centrsLatvianOn Oct 11, 2026, a search for “cilmes” (stem) on the State Blood Donor Centre’s website returned no results, and Latvia’s Ministry of Health site search showed none for “cilmes šūnu donoru”. 4 5
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  • Valsts asinsdonoru centrs (State Blood Donor Centre, Latvia) Latvian ·
  • Web search Latvian ·

Can people in Latvia join a registry abroad?

Finland’s registry takes only people living permanently in Finland, and joining it through Estonia’s Tartu University Hospital is for residents of Estonia, as both said on Oct 15, 2026. 1 2

Lithuania’s registry, as its information site described it on Oct 16, 2026, takes people aged 18 to 35 who have no chronic or infectious disease and names no rule on where you must live, so it isn’t confirmed whether people in Latvia can join. 13

Are stem cell transplants done in Latvia?

Latvia’s Ministry of Health announced on Sep 27, 2022, that Riga East Clinical University Hospital had been designated a facility of national interest, with stem cell transplantation among its medical services. 6

Questions about Latvia

Can a hospital in Latvia search abroad for a donor?

Lithuania’s patients’ association Kraujas says donors on the Lithuanian registry have given stem cells seven times for patients who are citizens of Latvia. 14

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Sources

How we check

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Registries

  1. Suomen Punaisen Ristin Veripalvelu. Ennen liittymistä. Checked
  2. Tartu Ülikooli Kliinikum. Tüvirakuregister.

Official bodies

  1. Valsts asinsdonoru centrs (State Blood Donor Centre, Latvia). sitemap.xml.
  2. Valsts asinsdonoru centrs. Site search "cilmes".
  3. Veselības ministrija (Latvia). Site search "cilmes šūnu donoru".
  4. LV portāls (official publisher Latvijas Vēstnesis), Ministry of Health release. Rīgas Austrumu klīniskās universitātes slimnīcai nosaka nacionālo interešu statusu. Updated Sep 27, 2022. Checked
  5. Zāļu valsts aģentūra (State Agency of Medicines, Latvia). Audu un šūnu izmantošanas atļauja Nr. AC-22 (Rīgas Austrumu klīniskās universitātes slimnīca, Hematoloģijas klīnika). Updated Jul 7, 2026. Checked

Figures and lists

  1. World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
  2. WMDA. WMDA Share organisation database (public view).
  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.

Other sources

  1. Asociacija "Kraujas" (Būk geras initiative). Padėkite gelbėti gyvybes. Checked
  2. Asociacija "Kraujas". Apie mus. Checked
  3. Unicode CLDR. By-Type Chart: Locale Display Names:Territories (Europe). Checked