NEW YORK (WABC) — Be part of Eyewitness Information anchor Shirleen Allicot for our annual, Emmy Award-winning WABC-TV particular, “Defend Our Kids: In Protected Arms.”
The present focuses on the essential function of kids’s hospitals in communities and those that assist youngsters heal as they face life-threatening challenges.
The particular contains an in-depth look inside a neonatal intensive care unit, and two infants who survive untimely start. It additionally options the unimaginable story of a brand new genetic therapy that is curing sickle-cell anemia, and the story of a boy who obtained a groundbreaking new most cancers therapy after his coronary heart transplant.
The particular additionally contains an interview with TV host and radio character Ryan Seacrest, who talks about his non-profit, The Ryan Seacrest Basis. The inspiration is devoted to inspiring pediatric sufferers by means of Seacrest Studios, broadcast media facilities inside greater than a dozen hospitals throughout the nation. Seacrest explains how Seacrest Studios helps youngsters within the hospital discover the artistic realms of radio, tv, and new media. Seacrest additionally talks about his mission to contribute positively to the therapeutic course of for kids and their households throughout their keep.
There at the moment are 13 Seacrest Studios at hospitals right this moment, with expansions coming in Miami and New Orleans.
“Defend Our Kids: In Protected Arms” additionally options Polly the Companion Canine, a black lab who works inside a youngsters’s hospital. Polly brings consolation and happiness to youngsters going through all the pieces from routine bloodwork to long-term hospital stays.
This half-hour present covers a number of points of therapeutic for kids in disaster and people working tirelessly behind the scenes to get them properly.
Watch “Defend Our Kids: In Protected Arms,” airing on Saturday, Could seventeenth at 7 p.m. on Channel 7 and wherever you stream ABC 7 New York
A rebroadcast of the particular will air on Channel 7 the next day, Sunday, Could 18 at 5:30 a.m.
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