Read the most important updates from the WMDA office and notifications to support global collaboration. October 08, 2023 To Whom It May Concern, Re: Ezer Mizion Registry Statement Due to the current security situation in Israel, we would like to notify registries and their affiliated centres awaiting pending stem cell donations from the Ezer Mizion Donor Bone Marrow Donor Registry. Israel is embarking on a long and difficult war in the next few weeks after an unprecedented attack from Gaza. We anticipate that many of our donors will not be available in the coming weeks due to massive recruitment of soldiers and reserve forces, and accessibility issues. Furthered more, at the moment, many airline companies cancelled their regular flights. Therefore, we request the following: - For ongoing and future work-ups, the transplant centre should cryopreserve all products. Cryopreservation has been approved by our Medical Director until further notice.
- Make sure you have back-up donors for your patients in case work-ups must be cancelled at the last moment.
- Please check with your courier companies the flight status and courier availability as close as possible to the transport timelines.
We would like emphasize that Ezer Mizion Bone Marrow Donor Registry is operating as routinely as possible under these difficult circumstances. However due to the uncertainty of the situation we will perform risk assessment on every ongoing and new work-up request according to the availability of the donors. Our coordinators will maintain ongoing updates on each case. We remain committed to do our utmost to provide donations in these unfortunate times. Contact Information: Yehudit Eitiel: yehudite@bmdr.org.il +972-52-9580059 REDOME Survey Please help the Brazilian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, REDOME, by filling out their survey: here. Redome has initiated a research plan to evaluate REDOME as part of Brazilian public policy for unrelated hematopoietic stem cell transplants, compared to other international registries. The research's main focus is on sustainability and some financial data are fundamental to performing economic analysis. Join the next Registry Ops & Reg Committee Meeting on 18 April, 2024 The Registry Operations and Regulation Committee will be reviewing the Global Trends Report Questionnaire. Would you like to join and give your input? Click here to register for the upcoming meeting on Thursday, 18 April from 13:00 - 14:00 CET. Find more details here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WMDA strongly condemns the violence that is occurring in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza. We offer our sympathies to all those who are suffering because of these conflicts. We extend our support to the donor registries and medical centres whose donors and patients are negatively affected by these crises. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sigal Manor: sigal@bmdr.org.il +972-52-9580039 |