Our Programme Your Donation Public & Private Cord Blood Banking Be a Donor Cost Donation Guidelines Will it be stored?   Will the donated cord definitely be stored?   It is extremely important that the cord blood units stored at SCBB are of the highest quality for use in patients. As such, your donated cord blood will be evaluated for volume, cell count and infectious diseases. Some samples may not be suitable for use in transplantation and in such cases the cord blood unit would not be stored.