{"id":6707,"date":"2020-05-10T18:20:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2020-05-10T18:20:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:20:05","slug":"nigerian-born-british-resident-nurse-onyenachi-obasi-contract-coronavirus-dies-after-five-weeks-on-ventilator-machine-51-year-old-worked-as-a-health-visitor-and-sacrificed-her-life-for-what-sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/nigerian-born-british-resident-nurse-onyenachi-obasi-contract-coronavirus-dies-after-five-weeks-on-ventilator-machine-51-year-old-worked-as-a-health-visitor-and-sacrificed-her-life-for-what-sh\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian born British resident Nurse, ONYENACHI OBASI contract Coronavirus, dies after five weeks on Ventilator machine …51 -year old worked as a health visitor and sacrificed her life for what she loved * Passed early hours of May 6 at Queen\u2019s Hospital, survived by her 19-year-old son *Her last word on dying bed: \u201cI felt I had a duty to work, and help during the pandemic\u201d * Family so far raised more than \u00a36,000 towards Obasi\u2019s funeral costs through ‘GO-FUND-ME’ * \u201cWe are just heartbroken. She was really loving, really sweet and a really cute person. She was a good example of unconditional love and just loved everyone. She was so giving and always had an ear \u2013 she took people as they were. She loved her job, but that is what caused her to fall ill in the first place\u201d-Her niece, Ijeoma Uzoukwu * BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF & RIKKY EDWARD\/ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER, UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nigerian\nborn Briti<\/strong>sh\nresident Nurse, ONYENACHI OBASI contract<\/strong>\n<\/strong>Coronavirus,\ndies after five weeks on Ventilator machine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…51\n-year old worked as a health visitor and sacrificed her life for\nwhat she loved<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\nPassed early hours of May 6 at Queen\u2019s Hospital, survived by her\n19-year-old son<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Her\nlast word on dying bed: \u201cI felt I had a duty to work, and help\nduring the pandemic\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\nFamily so far raised more than \u00a36,000 towards Obasi\u2019s funeral\ncosts through ‘GO-FUND-ME’<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\n\u201cWe are just heartbroken. She was really loving, really sweet and a\nreally cute person. <\/strong>She\nwas a good example of unconditional love and just loved everyone. She\nwas so giving and always had an ear \u2013 she took people as they were.<\/strong>\nShe loved her job, but that is what caused her to fall ill in the\nfirst place\u201d-Her niece, Ijeoma Uzoukwu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\nBY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF & RIKKY\nEDWARD\/ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ONYENACHI\nOBA<\/strong>SI\nwas a loving, passionate certified Nurse who enjoyed helping the\npeople under every situation. She was a legally British resident who\nrelocated to United Kingdom few years ago to continue her medical\ncareer. Sadly, she gave up home-comfort to save various patients\nbattling the deadly Covid-19. Obasi died in the course of her\nservice to humanity. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thi<\/strong>s<\/strong>\n<\/strong>British-based\nNigerian described as a \u201cdedicated and loving\u201d nurse has\ntragically died of Coronavirus five weeks after first being placed on\na ventilator.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n51year-old woman had been working as a health visitor and nurse, and\nher family said she \u201cgave her life doing what she loved\u201d. She\ndied in the early hours of May 6 at Queen\u2019s Hospital, and is\nsurvived by her 19-year-old son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her\nniece Ijeoma Uzoukwu, said: \u201cWe are just heartbroken. She was\nreally loving, really sweet and a really cute person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\nwas a good example of unconditional love and just loved everyone. She\nwas so giving and always had an ear \u2013 she took people as they were.\nShe loved her job, but that is what caused her to fall ill in the\nfirst place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms\nObasi, who had been living in Barking and Dagenham, had no underlying\nhealth conditions and told her family that she felt she had a duty to\nwork, and help, during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms\nUzoukwu explained: \u201cShe told me she had to do it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However,\na few days after caring for a patient with Coronavirus, she fell ill\nherself before eventually being admitted to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her\nniece said: \u201cAny normal situation I would go and see her, and be by\nher side. But due to the lockdown, we weren\u2019t able to do that, and\nthat was really hard for our family.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obasi\nwas placed on a ventilator for five weeks and was slowly recovering\nbefore she caught an infection. She died in the early hours of May 6\nat Queen\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uzoukwu\nis organising a GoFundMe fundraiser to help pay for her aunt\u2019s\nfuneral and to also help provide for her 19-year-old son, who is\nvulnerable and was dependant on her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\nsaid: \u201cIt was just the two of them, and he relied on her for so\nmuch. We want to make sure he is taken care of for the foreseeable\nfuture and get him the help that he needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\nis a really sweet boy, and he has taken after his mum. He is such a\nnice boy and he is finding it really hard without her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So\nfar the family have raised more than \u00a36,000 towards Ms Obasi\u2019s\nfuneral costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#Adapted\nfrom a report by the London Evening Standard.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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