Significance of cord-blood has resulted in the establishment of large number of cord blood registries (or banks) in UK, US, Canada and others. Effectiveness of utilizing cord blood stem cells to treat many diseases is the reason that why large number of people are considering storing the cord blood obtained from their newborn’s umbilical cord in the various registries. These registries are open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week to help all populace enroll for cord blood storage. There are many private and public banks available, where an individual can get his/her child’s cord blood stored. It is therefore essential to determine whether chosen bank complies with all the regulations.
Functioning of a cord blood registry
Majority of the registries operate 24*7 to provide required information and for online enrollments. When people get themselves enrolled to these registries or banks, kits would be supplied to them in order to collect the baby’s umbilical blood during delivery.
Parents may enroll with any kind of bank – public, private, profit or non-profit bank. Private Banks preserve the rights of donating family to use umbilical stem-cells exclusively to meet its own requirements. In case of public banks, there are no such rights. A patient, who is in the need of stem-cells, can make use of it even if he/she is not the donor of those stem-cells.
Cord blood storage procedure
Enrollment and registration process is quite simple in a cord blood registry, whether it is private or public. It charges from the clients for collection kits, laboratory, processing & storage. When the cord blood cells are collected from the baby’s umbilical cord, they are sent to the facility where they are processed. During processing, red blood cells (RBCs) are separated out of cord blood cells. After this separation, cells go through the process of screening in order to determine viral and bacterial contamination, number of cells in the sample, viability and sterility. There is some annual fee that is charged by a cord blood registry in order to preserve cord blood cells in a cryogenic facility.
Payment options
Different cord blood banks or registries provide different payment options to their clients. Few banks have developed such payment schemes, where clients have to pay a one-time payment and get cord blood storage service for about 15 to 20 years. This kind of payment plan generally involves some discounts for the clients.
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