Womens Lives Saved
In Nigeria a woman who gave birth at home arrives at the emergency room bleeding heavily. She has no pulse, no blood pressure, is pale and cold. Her relatives leave and go outside to grieve her death. The doctors in the hospital have just received the LifeWrap, and they place it on the woman. Within two minutes, her eyelids begin to flutter and she begins murmuring. The doctors call to her relatives, "She is alive!" The relatives return and rejoice. They tell her, "You need a new name. From now on you are AYORUNBO, she who has been to heaven and returned!"
“Juana was 23 years old when she gave birth to her second child in the rural clinic in Mexico that I work at. Her labor went well, but after the birth, the placenta would not come out and she started bleeding heavily. Juana quickly became pale and weak and fell into unconsciousness. We had heard about the LifeWrap just weeks before at a community outreach meeting, so we struggled to get Juana in the back of a truck and drove nearly two hours to the nearest secondary level facility. Immediately, staff applied the LifeWrap. As soon as the last section of the garment was on, she stopped bleeding. Juana began to murmur, her eyelashes fluttered, and in five minutes she was awake.” Clinic Midwife, Mexico
Dr. David Nsima worked rapidly to save a mother's life in Nigeria. The young woman, Maryama, was bleeding internally and slipping into shock. Pregnancy-related injuries were causing blood to seep away from her vital organs and pool in her lower body. If Dr. Nsima could not find a way to slow the flow of blood, Maryama's organs could fail and she would die. Just a few months earlier, a woman in her condition at the Katsina General Hospital in Northern Nigeria would not have survived.
On this day, however, Dr.Nsima looked calm, even confident. He and his colleague were able to fit Maryama's lower body into a blue neoprene suit known as the LifeWrap. Because of this garment, Maryama's life, as well as the lives of many others, has been saved.