I DON'T KNOW WHY I BECAME A NURSE

I Was Almost Hit By a Bullet, I Still have the shell, I Saw Life And Death.

    Igwe-Nworji Umunna Brethren is from Ebonyi state Nigeria, he graduated from Ebonyi state University, where he obtained a bachelors degree in public health  Nursing. He is the founder of Unite the Dream, a pet project he started to help young people in his community to achieve their dreams.

Brethren worked as a humanitarian community health care worker in the Northern part of Nigeria before relocating to the United Kingdom to pursue is career as an Emergency Nurse. 

Brethren shared that growing up was not easy for him, but just like every young Nigerian who are determine to succeed in life; he worked hard to see himself through school and to achieve his goals in life. He said that he made a lot of crazy decisions in life like moving to the Northern part of Nigeria to serve his country. Brethren said that because of his love for humanity, not considering the security challenges in the North East, he took the risk to remain in the North and to take up a job to serve as medical health aid at the internal displacement camp for the villagers in the North who had flee their homes due to the Boko Haram terrorist group insurgency in that part of the country. His decision to move to the North was influenced by the stories shared by some Doctors and Nurses in NYSC camp on how women and children were suffering and dying of sickness  and starvation  in the internal displacement camp and there are no medical aid and support system even as they struggle to survive from the bomb blast by the terrorist group. He also shared his experience while serving the people, how he strives to stay alive and how he narrowly escape death, when he was almost hit by a bullet when traveling with soldiers to provide medical aid to the villagers. 

 

When asked about what inspired him to become a Nurse, Brethren said that he does not know why he became a Nurse, his desire was actually to become an Engineer. His Father wanted him to become a Doctor but he said no because he does not want to fail. But along the line he began to understand why he became a Nurse because he was  part of a system that fought for some changes for Nurses in his community.

Brethren lamented about the poor conditions of the  health care system in Nigeria and gave reasons why so many health care workers are leaving the country to pursue their dreams elsewhere. He said that he left Nigeria to pursue his Nursing career in the UK because the system is not changing and no one is benefiting from it, and also he needed to create a better life for his children.

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