Searching for a doubly rare blood type

Bautista says that the great efforts made to find the blood she needed really opened her eyes to the importance of blood donation and the beautiful gift it represents. — Cleveland Clinic

In 2018, Filipino Daina Bautista who has worked in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for over 15 years, first began to suspect something was wrong.

She had been having terrible coughing fits that her family doctor first diagnosed as asthma.