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Lady Freemasons' Teddy gifts for Blackpool Victoria Hospital
SICK children are being given some TLC from caring bears.
Blackpool Victoria Hospital's A&E department has benefited from a fundraising appeal, which hands teddies to hospitals to help comfort distressed children.
Teddies for Loving Care Appeal raises money for bears so staff can hand them to upset children to help calm nerves while they are in hospital.
Caroline Gomery, paediatric sister in A&E, said: "The teddies are going down really well, particularly with children who are around two and three years old.
"We give teddies to children who are distressed or in difficult circumstances, whether they be here as a patient or with someone else.
Children seem to really like them and hold on to them."
The Blackpool bears are being bought for The Vic by the Lady Freemasons and when children have received the teddies they can take them home with them to keep.
Lady Freemasons Provincial Grand Tyler, Teri Hill, said: "We are the first of the lady masons to do this appeal and the first at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
"The teddies are to give out to children who are distressed in A&E and hospital staff can decide who they think would benefit from the teddies."
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