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Is there a bone marrow registry in the Maldives?

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As of , no bone marrow donor registry signs up people who live in the Maldives. The Maldives government sponsors bone marrow transplants in India for children with thalassemia who have a matching donor in their family, PSM News reported on Jan 1, 2024. 12

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Maldives at a glance
RegionSouthern Asia, Asia 9
PopulationAbout 526,000 (2023) 10
RegistryNone found as of 7 8
World donor searchNo organization based in the Maldives lists adult donors or cord blood units in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 11
TransplantsPSM News reported on Jan 1, 2024 that the Maldives had 943 registered thalassemia patients, 655 of them alive, and that 40 children with a family donor were on the Ministry of Health’s list for a sponsored transplant abroad. 12
Where we looked7 places, in English and Divehi
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What we found in the Maldives

The Maldives’ thalassemia guideline lists siblings and unrelated cord blood as donors. 4

WhereLanguageFindingDate
World Marrow Donor AssociationEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, the World Marrow Donor Association listed no member organization based in the Maldives, and its Search & Match statistics had no Maldivian listing. 7 8
Ministry of Health, MaldivesDivehiOn Oct 11, 2026, searches of the Maldives Ministry of Health website for “bone marrow” and “stem cell”, in English and Dhivehi, turned up no donor registry, only news about sending patients abroad for transplants. 3
Ministry of Health / Maldivian Blood ServicesEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, the Maldives’ 2022 national guideline on transfusion-dependent thalassemia, from the Ministry of Health and Maldivian Blood Services, listed transplant donors as compatible siblings, matched unrelated cord blood or mismatched relatives, and described no donor registry in the country. 4
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Can people in the Maldives join a registry abroad?

Maldivian patients go to India for transplants, but India’s national registries take only people who live in India: on Oct 15, 2026, DKMS Foundation India registered permanent residents of India only, and DATRI’s form asked whether you live there. 1 2

Are stem cell transplants done in the Maldives?

Families in the Maldives can ask for a child with thalassemia to join the list for a sponsored transplant through the Thalassemia Centre, and the National Social Protection Agency arranges the tests, PSM News reported in January 2024. 12

Has the Maldives announced a registry or a law?

The Maldives health minister told parliament in April 2026, MMTV reported, that a national thalassemia patient registry began in January 2026 and an online registry for blood donors, not stem cell donors, was due by October 2026. 13

Questions about the Maldives

Can a hospital in the Maldives search abroad for a donor?

PSM News reported in December 2023 that the Maldives Ministry of Health would send children with thalassemia who have a family donor to a hospital in India, after a team from that hospital came to the Maldives to test them, and that it was also evaluating hospitals in Italy. 14

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Sources

How we check

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Registries

  1. DATRI Blood Stem Cell Donors Registry. Register now.
  2. DKMS Foundation India. Register as a potential donor.

Official bodies

  1. Ministry of Health, Maldives. Site searches: 'ބޯންމެރޯ' (bone marrow, Dhivehi) at 16:05:41Z; 'bone marrow', 'stem cell', 'transplant', 'thalassemia', 'ސްޓެމް ސެލް' between 15:59:22Z and 16:05:25Z.
  2. Ministry of Health / Maldivian Blood Services. Management of Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemias (TDT) in the Maldives (MOH-MBS/G/22/110-0). 2022.
  3. Ministry of Health, Maldives. News, 16 April 2025 (Dhivehi). Updated Apr 16, 2025.
  4. Ministry of Health, Maldives. News, 19 September 2023 (Dhivehi). Updated Sep 19, 2023.

Figures and lists

  1. World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). WMDA statistics.
  2. World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry (member map).
  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. PSM News (Public Service Media, Maldives). Two more children leave for bone marrow transplants. Updated Jan 1, 2024.
  2. Maldives Television (MMTV). Online blood donor registry system under development: Health Minister. Updated Apr 13, 2026.
  3. PSM News. Gov’t to facilitate first child’s bone marrow transplant. Updated Dec 13, 2023. Checked