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Mina Stoddart-Stones has an extremely rare U negative and N negative RO blood type that is frozen and reserved for exact‑match patients, and she says she feels honoured to help others.

Mina Stoddart-Stones, 26, from Bridgwater is one of nine UK donors with U negative and N negative blood.
Her blood also has the RO subtype and is stored at NHS Blood and Transplant’s National Frozen Blood Bank for up to 30 years.
NHSBT reserves rare units for patients who need exact matches, including those having operations or people with conditions like sickle cell disease.
Stoddart-Stones is on NHSBT’s UK rare donor panel, which contains about 1,200 people from roughly 800,000 donors.
She is also on the stem cell register and says she donates because of childhood illness and family experiences with cancer.

Somerset woman with ultra rare blood donates vital frozen units

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