Is there a bone marrow registry in New Caledonia?

France’s national registry, run by the Agence de la biomédecine, takes online pre-registrations and needs a French address for its saliva kit, but on Oct 11, 2026 none of its donor centers listed New Caledonia’s department number, 988, and its site search found nothing for ‘Calédonie’. [1, 3, 6, 7]

None of the French registry’s donor centers lists New Caledonia’s 988. [3]

Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes reported in May 2011 that a New Caledonian man with leukemia, hospitalized again in Sydney after a second relapse, had no matching marrow donor on the French or international registries, and his wife asked why New Caledonia has no marrow donor registry of its own. [18]

New Caledonia’s kidney transplants are mostly done in Australia, its health department says, but Stem Cell Donors Australia asks that people who join live in Australia and are eligible for Medicare, and New Zealand’s registry delivers its kits across New Zealand, so neither describes a way to join from New Caledonia, as checked on Oct 15, 2026. [4, 5, 8]

To retrieve kidneys locally, New Caledonia’s Gaston-Bourret hospital set up a laboratory that identifies the tissue characteristics of potential donors and recipients, New Caledonia’s government said in January 2018; the work relies on Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, where a New Caledonian first had a kidney transplant in 1979. [10]

We haven’t found any announcement of a marrow donor registry for New Caledonia. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. In December 2019 its government authorized the Gaston-Bourret hospital to carry out adult kidney transplants, a measure from the Do Kamo health plan that the Congress adopted in March 2016. [9]