We’re always looking for new donors, particularly from the Asian, Caribbean, black African, Bangladeshi and Indian communities, which commonly have rare blood groups and are prone to blood disorders such as sickle cell anaemia.’ Lulah, of Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, is A RhD Positive, a fairly common type, but for her first five transfusions she needed O RhD Negative as she was too young to ascertain which blood type she was.
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