37-year-old Nigerian Lawyer Slumps, D!es While Working As Caregiver In UK

Chidimma Ezenyili, a 37-year-old Nigerian working as a caregiver in the UK, collapsed on February 22 and passed away two days later.

Reports said on Wednesday that the event happened while Ezenyili was taking care of Ian Hale, an old woman on Scott Road, causing her to pass out while she was working.

Prior to her migration to the UK, Ezenyili was rumored to have practised law in Nigeria. She and her spouse, Friday, had been looking after Hale for the previous five months. They moved in August 2023 in order to give their toddler daughter, Mandy, a better future.

Hale’s daughter Catherine Segal related the incidents, pointing out that even though Ezenyili wasn’t feeling well, she carried out her tasks out of devotion to them.

Hale’s daughter, Catherine Segal, said, “She (Ezenyili) was driven there by her husband with their three-year-old daughter as she wasn’t feeling well but didn’t want to let my dad down.”

Speaking further, Segal said the caregiver collapsed on Thursday, February 22, and stopped breathing and did not have a pulse. “Naturally, her husband started shouting for help. The neighbourhood raced to help. Myself and my husband ran outside along with our next-door neighbour and our neighbour from across the road. We had two GoodSAM first responders arrive shortly after to assist. The community first responder along with several ambulances, police and the critical care team arrived to take over attempts to save her life and were successful in getting her on life support in the ambulance.”

According to Segal, once the dead was brought to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, medical professionals in the critical care unit for neurosciences found that she had suffered a significant brain hemorrhage.

“Sadly, life support was turned off two days later, on February 24, and she passed with her husband by her side,” stated Saul, Segal’s husband, in his narration.[CONTINUE READING HERE]