A 37-year-old Nigerian lawyer, Chidimma Susan Ezenyili working as a caregiver in the United Kingdom (UK) has reportedly slumped and died at Bishop’s Stortford Street.
Ezenyili, fondly called Suzy, was said to be feeling unwell, but struggled to work to avoid disappointing her elderly client, Ian Hale in Scott Road.
According to reports, the deceased has been caring for the 86-year-old for the past five months.
Hale’s daughter, Catherine Segal, said the deceased was driven there by her husband with their three-year-old daughter as she wasn’t feeling well but didn’t want to let her father down.
Suzy, a qualified lawyer and her husband, Friday, left Nigeria in August 2023 to seek greener pastures in the UK.
They left for the UK with their toddler daughter, Mandy, to work as caregivers on sponsorship visas to give their daughter a better life.
Segal said when Suzy collapsed on Thursday, February 22, she stopped breathing and did not have a pulse.
“Naturally, her husband started shouting for help. The neighbourhood raced to help.
“I and my husband and I ran outside along with our next-door neighbour and our neighbour from across the road,” she disclosed.
Suzy was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, where doctors at the neurosciences critical care unit discovered she had suffered a severe brain haemorrhage.
According to Bishop’s Stortford Independent, Mrs Segal and Suzy’s manager from Harlow-based Care at Hand Ltd, Elisha Newberry, went to the hospital with Friday to support him.
Segal added: “Sadly, life support was turned off two days later, on February 24, and she passed with her husband by her side.”
She said: “Suzy came here as a carer to fill a need in our community. She was qualified in law in Nigeria and was planning to attain her qualifications to practise law here after her sponsorship as a carer finished.
“She was a really good carer. Kind, considerate and always willing to help no matter what the circumstances.
“Her dream was for her daughter, Mandy, to attend school in the UK and to make a new life where she would have the opportunities that Suzy and Friday never had growing up in Nigeria.”
Segal has helped set up a JustGiving appeal to help Friday and Mandy.
