Syed writes in to inform that he wants to become a bone marrow donor and asks for details on how to do so.
The country’s one and only registry is the Malaysian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (MBMDR) which is at the IMR (Institute of Medical Research) in KL.
We have covered this before in our previous post, Be a bone marrow donor. The US NMDP also illustrated the overall Steps of Bone marrow donation – basically it means joining the registry as a donor, and it involves providing a blood sample for Tissue Typing (also known as HLA matching). If one is ever found to be a suitable match for donation, one may in the future then be called up for either bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell donation.
IMR’s MBMDR contact:
+603 26986033 ext 463
Email: mmdr@imr.gov.my
Location
Do note that the bigger the donor pool, the higher the possibility of finding a match. At the moment the MBMDR is quite small, at last count still under 20,000 donors. The country could do with a donor pool of easily over 100,000 so if you can help and be a bone marrow donor, that would mean so much for the large number of patients out there requiring a bone marrow transplant who do not have a donor.
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