https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7s0rhVaeqk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Tk9m0BXGU

Team Member was born hours after the news stations reported a bomb blast in the United Nation’s headquarters in the capital territory of Nigeria, Abuja. On August 26 2011, Member Hembadoon Feese a 23-year-old post-graduate student was confirmed as being in the UN building at the time of the bomb. Her car was in the parking lot, her mobile phone was off, and her body was missing. The panic escalated as the race to find Member began. Trawling through hospital, sorting through victims, Member was finally discovered in the Intensive Care Unit of the National Hospital. Able doctors, despite valiant fighting were too powerless to combat the obvious; a protracted lack of facilities.

36 Hours Later…
2 parents, 2 siblings, 100s of friends & supporters and several surgeries later; it was clear that Member’s chances of surviving were extremely slim if she remained within Nigeria. The facilities, or lack of same, would be her death it appeared. With a severely damaged and heavily infected left leg, injured lungs and substantial injuries to various body parts, the 5’3, 60 kg lithe frame of Miss Feese had taken a battering. A battering her country, Nigeria, was clearly unable to fix. Member had to be evacuated as soon as possible or her condition would deteriorate quickly. On the Sunday following the bomb blast which killed over 20 people, Member was airlifted to the United Kingdom where she underwent extensive, life-saving medical treatment.

What Went Wrong?
Member’s story evinces the dilapidated state of the Nigerian health care system. A few of the obvious problems with the system as reflected in Member’s tale include;

A disturbing lack of equipment in the National Hospital, the premier public hospital of the Federation housed in the capital territory, Abuja; the CT scanner though present…did not have a connecting cable. As such, the said equipment was useless.

Oxygen had to be manually pumped as there were no ventilators. This single act almost lead to Member’s demise as the constant motion of the machine compressed a lung further. The platelete machine was away from the hospital and with an individual in a different state insinuating a system of borrowing and exchanging is in existence. To the detriment of some patients.

No equipped ambulance are in existence despite the profusion of buses decorated with the ambulance sigma. Many nurses and support staff are poorly trained for the career and are responsible for substantial post-traumatic stress disorder damage due to the cavalier attitude exhibited to both patients and traumatised families.

The clear absence of a chain of command made communication, particularly, difficult.
Team Member was born on the day of the bomb blast, Friday 26th August 2011. It originally began on Blackberry Messenger with five of Member’s friends as the only members. A small group whose purpose was to share updates about Member, encourage each other, and spread positivity to mobilize support for Member. Soon, the positivity of the group, through message and the encouragement for Member and for each other, attracted many others. As Member grew in strength, so did the Group. As she regained her identity and focus, she returned whole in mind to speak out against the injustices in Nigeria. And so did Team Member. The Group has continued to grow in strength, advancing from being merely a support group to an advocacy group but our message remains the same at the core; Positivity and Support, in a fight for a better tomorrow.

Join us, tomorrow is just beginning.
Watch Member’s remarkable story below and sign up here to join the movement!

Facebook: [url]facebook.com/iamteammember[/url]
Twitter: @iamteammember
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Email: change@iamteammember.org
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PS: She's Nigerian, from Benue State.

"Member" of where? "Member" of what?
This type of "incomplete sentence" is not expected from you naah!
You don dey fall my hand o!

For example, it could have read "Nairaland Member" Feese, ........
Or just remove the "member" completely.

Lastpage!

Her name is "Member Feese"

lastpage: "Member" of where? "Member" of what?
This type of "incomplete sentence" is not expected from you naah!
You don dey fall my hand o!

For example, it could have read "Nairaland Member" Feese, ........
Or just remove the "member" completely.

Lastpage!

Her name is "Member Feese." If you don't have time to watch the video, at least google her name.

it is pronounced m-em-bee
its a benue name from tiv extraction

i weep for this girl. I wonder why God is so merciful to let evil strive... Her condition has broken me down seriously.

lastpage: "Member" of where? "Member" of what?
This type of "incomplete sentence" is not expected from you naah!
You don dey fall my hand o!

For example, it could have read "Nairaland Member" Feese, ........
Or just remove the "member" completely.

Lastpage!

Come and apologize

Oh Mine!!!


May God grant her complete healing and bless her with a full life.

Like Member rightly said, we should learn to live everyday like it's our last as the ephemerality of life, though seemingly surreal, is a sad reality. This second you are here, the next second you are not.


Violence is never an answer;
Violence is never the key;
Violence hurts worse than cancer;
With violence, retrogressive we shall continually be.

Touching......

This is someone who survived an atrocious suicide bomb blast and some idiots are here debating on the validity of her name, paying little or no attention to the details of her ordeal. SHAME.

*Very touching. Hospitals with no equipment? Untrained nurses and carers? No chain of command?*

Boy! As time goes by Nigeria seems to get worse than ever. I'm becoming very disillusioned with Nigeria and its persistent backwardness. SHAME.

This type of "incomplete sentence" is not expected from you naah![img]http://www.dubaa.info/hmp.gif[/img]

Member of ogboni or boko haram ? Member na person name ?

A CT scan machine costs approximately 2m usd. one hundred (100) machines would cost less than 30b naira. A ventilator most likely costs far less than that. Nigeria could afford 100 CT scanners and 100 ventilators with less than 50b naira. Some of our rulers have been accused of stealing amounts in excess of 50b - and that's one person.

With the 1.7 trillion subsidy scam, we could afford to put 10 scanners and ventilators in every single public hospital in Nigeria.

I wonder how some people get a good sleep at night.

God help Member.
God help us.

Very touching story. May God help you... I dont even know where Nigeria is heading to... Am pretty sure that a conventional AMBULANCE in the UK/US is far better than Nigeria's National hospital. God help us.

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Member of ogboni or boko haram ? Member na person name ?

That's her name Member Hembadoon Feese.

The money budgeted to renovate arse hole clinic including dog training pitch there would equip the NATIONAL HOSPITAL.
Imagine a whole national hospital that should be the flagship of our hospitals situated at their backyard in the FEDERAL CAPITAL is without automatic ventilator!and the ambulance that should be equiped to stabilize trauma victims in transit to hospital is just an ordinary bus.after some dunce go dey talk if we dey curse those oloribuku dem

Please if you have the courage pay a visit to the UCH mortuary unit and witness first hand the stench of decaying human body. According to the attendant some of the freezers to store the bodies stopped working months ago. King flies are regular visitors to that department! Its a total eye sore. Please if you are in Ibadan you can confirm this yourself...this is how we treat our dead.

Member sister thank God you hav survive from de hands of this ungodly element called Boko Haram, may u leave long 2 see ur children children Amen.

All of u that are making noise about her name, may God forgive u all. This is a person who survived a serious event. What about those who did not make it? What do u say about them? Dr Dede, Yemi, Francis, the Norwegian lady, what about them? And here u all are questioning the lady's name. What about those who are scarred and remember the day vividly? My dad was in the building that day. In fact he was in the conference room directly above the spot where the bomb was detonated. All those people I mentioned were in the same room with him. He survived the bombing but a few months later we got to know he had an injury in his brain that was bleeding and putting pressure on his brain. He had to undergo two surgeries here in Nigeria and one in South Africa and months of rehabilitation before he came back to his normal self. Yet he is one of the lucky ones, and one of those who had the least amount of injuries. He is not different from those that died that day, they were breadwinners like he is, but yet he survived and we give thanks for that. Even a few of those that survived the blast that dayndied later. So those here that are questioning the story should be a little bit more sensitive and respectful please. It has and will forever remain a scar on so many lives that were affected that day, both the survivors and those that died and the ones they left behind.