VIP Donor with Ultra-Rare Blood Says She Feels ‘Honoured’ to Help Sick Patients

VIP donor with ultra-rare blood says she feels ‘honoured’ to help sick patients

Staff at the NHS blood and transplant frozen blood bank in Liverpool said meeting Mina Stoddart-Stones was like ‘meeting royalty’. A woman whose blood is so rare that it can be frozen for up to three decades every time she donates has said she feels “very special and honoured” to be able to help sick patients. Mina Stoddart-Stones has been giving blood for years, but only recently realised she is considered a “VIP” to NHS Blood and Transplant (N…

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(Left) Joanne Matthews manager of the NHS Blood and Transplant, national frozen blood bank, with Mina Stoddart-Stones, 26, from Bridgwater in Somerset, at the NHS Blood And Transplant in Speke, Liverpool (Peter Byrne/PA) PA Media Mina Stoddart-Stones has become a VIP for the NHS. The 26-year-old from Bridgwater, Somerset, has one of the rarest blood types in the UK. Only nine donors share her exact combination: U negative, N negative, and RO sub…