Is there a bone marrow registry in Senegal?

Senegal’s first marrow transplant, in 2025, used the patient’s own cells. [8]

France’s registry, checked on Oct 11, 2026, takes people living abroad only if they plan to move back to France, and they must give a French address for the saliva kit, so people who live in Senegal can’t join it. [2]

South Africa’s two registries take only people who live in South Africa: on Oct 11, 2026, DKMS Africa’s form asked first whether you live there, and SABMR excluded anyone not living there, so people in Senegal can’t join either from home. [4, 5]

The Senegalese press agency APS said a year later that the February 2025 procedure was the first bone marrow transplant in French-speaking West Africa, and an autograft. [16]

Senegal’s health ministry said in March 2025 that the state-built clinical hematology center at Hôpital Dalal Jamm would now treat patients who used to be evacuated abroad, at costs of 100 to 150 million CFA francs, and that Hôpital Dalal Jamm, with outside support, had covered the full cost of the first transplant. [10]

Le Soleil reported in March 2025 that Hôpital Dalal Jamm’s director, Moussa Sam Daff, said Senegal’s first marrow transplant was one of the first projects in the hospital’s 2024 to 2029 plan, alongside assisted reproduction, and would help reduce medical evacuations. [15]

APS reported in March 2026 that Pr Fatou Samba Diago Ndiaye, who led Senegal’s first marrow transplant with an all-Senegalese team, had to train in hematology in France because Senegal had no clinical hematology service or specialty when she started. [16]

In August 2025 Senegal’s health minister installed new members of the national donation and transplant council and asked it to develop cornea transplants and open up other kinds of transplant. [7]

Senegal’s health ministry said in August 2025 that the national donation and transplant council, chaired by Pr Elhadji Fary Kâ, regulates the donation and transplant of human organs, tissues and cells, and that Senegal is now cited as a reference for this regulation in West Africa. [7]