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Karen Davila Continues Crusade for Kids with Biliary Atresia

It has been eight years since Karen Davila made the award-winning two-part documentary “Yellow Babies” for “The Correspondents.” It featured the plight and fight of a child suffering from Biliary Atresia, a congenital liver disease that hits one out of every 15 children in the country.

Despite the growing number of Biliary Atresia patients, there is still no liver transplant facility in the country. The children have to be taken abroad for a chance of an operation. That is why it has been Karen’s commitment to push for a facility especially for liver patients.

This Thursday (Feb 3) in “Krusada,” Karen will introduce us to the three-year-old Erica, the very first successful liver transplant patient in the Philippines. Based on data from Medical City, the kid started displaying symptoms of Jaundice when she was two months old. After two years, she needed to undergo a transplant operation due as she suffered severe gastrointestinal bleeding.

Stories about kids have always been close to Karen’s heart, not just because she’s a broadcast journalist but because she is a mother herself. But the fight for Biliary Atresia patients is not hers or the children’s alone. Any mother who feels for her children is also part of the crusade.

Listen, take part and be one in their cause. Watch “Krusada” this Thursday (Feb 3) after “Bandila” on ABS-CBN.

4 Comments on Karen Davila Continues Crusade for Kids with Biliary Atresia

  1. Catherine Candido // February 21, 2018 at 11:52 pm //

    good evening po…active pa po ba ito?Ma’am Karen sana matulungan ninyo ang anak ko na si Nathalie Candido mayroon kasi siyang Biliary Atresia and she badly needs a liver transplant

  2. Hello Ms. Karen Davila // October 26, 2014 at 11:32 pm //

    I am Ruby Ellis Peralta.. I got inspired by your documentary as i have seen on u tube. I have a son who just turned 1 he is suffereing from Biliary Atresia. I was ignorant to the disease. He got a kasai surgery on his 3 rd month at PCMC Unluckily as he turns 1 this month, he showed severe jaundice, bloated tummy, pale stools…Then i knew the kasai didnt worked well. Hope you could me i just dont know where to start i know he badly needs Liver trasnplant . Please help help me save my sons life.

  3. Ang ganda ng episode na ito! Ang galing ni Ms. Karen!

  4. imortal the best parin // February 2, 2011 at 8:54 pm //

    imortal the best angel locsin the best din

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