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• Muamba’s dad Marcel and fiancée Shauna Magunda have thanks millions for their support
• Fabrice is talking and asked them them to send a message to all of those still thinking of him
• Doctors took 1hr and 18 minutes to restart Muamba’s heart, and the family have warned that he is still very fragile and not out of danger
• Bolton are set to play their first game since the incident on Saturday, against rivals Blackburn Rovers

By
Martin Robinson

PUBLISHED:

07:48 EST, 23 March 2012

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UPDATED:

08:43 EST, 23 March 2012

Fabrice Muamba’s father and fiancée have today thanked millions across the world for the support they believe has helped save his life.

From his London hospital bed in intensive care the stricken footballer, whose heart stopped for 78 minutes last Saturday, has also asked his loved ones to tell people to keep thinking and praying for him.

Speaking for the first time together, his dad Marcel Muamba and wife-to-be Shauna Magunda expressed their ‘enormous gratitude’ to the Bolton and Tottenham medical teams for their quick reaction during last weekend’s FA Cup quarter final.

Eternal thanks: Shauna Magunda, right, Fabrice Muamba’s fiancee, has kept a constant bedside vigil and has spoken out about the ordeal with his father Marcel

Medics worked on the Bolton Wanderers
footballer for almost an hour and a half to save him
after he suffered a cardiac arrest – shocking his heart 15 times before
it restarted.

Ever since he was rushed to hospital
his family, including Shauna, 27, and his parents Marcel and Gertrude,
have all been maintaining a constant vigil.

Speaking this lunchtime the pair
praised the ‘fantastic team’ still caring for him at the London Chest
Hospital, warning he is not out of danger yet.

‘Even though Fabrice has made great
progress over the last couple of days, he is still in intensive care,
and still has a long period of recovery ahead. He has asked that you
please keep him in your prayers,’ they said in statement.

Happy couple: Fabrice Muamba, right, out with his fiancee Shauna who he had recently got engaged to. The couple have a three-year-old son

Romance: Fabrice Muamba proposed to his girlfriend Shauna Magunda on Valentine’s Day

Thanking the public and media for
respecting their privacy in the past week, they added: ‘We would like to thank God for answering our prayers.

‘Thank you to everyone for the love, prayers and support over the past few days.

‘In particular we owe an enormous gratitude to the Bolton and Spurs medical teams for their quick reaction on Saturday, and the fantastic team here at The London Chest Hospital.

‘We have been overwhelmed by all the kind messages we have received. The support we have had from the fans not just from Bolton but football supporters around the world has given us so much strength. 

‘We have been particularly touched by the support from the football community globally.’

Bolton are set to play their first game since the incident on Saturday, against rivals Blackburn Rovers.

Shock: Bolton manager Owen Coyle (left) walks alongside the stretcher as medical staff attend to Fabrice Muamba. Leading the way, right, is Tottenham fan Dr Andrew Deaner, a consultant cardiologist who came down from the stands to help resuscitate the player

Dreadful scenes: Bolton’s manager Owen Coyle, right, looks on distraught with other players as Fabrice Muamba receives CPR treatment on the pitch

It was Muamba’s father who revealed the
bewildered footballer asked ‘did we lose?’ when he came round in his bed
after being put in an artificially induced coma.

When
he was told the match had been abandoned with the scores at 1-1, the
footballer demanded to know why. His father Marcel said: ‘Because of
you’.

Doctors cannot yet say whether he would be able to play professional football again and are reluctant to predict a timetable for his recovery, which remains in the early stages.

The footballer has been visited by a host of top professionals including Chelsea’s Ashley Cole, Tottenham forward Jermain Defoe and Bolton teammate Kevin Davies.

Players and teams across the world have also shown their support by wearing special t-shirts and having a minute’s applause before games.

Consultant cardiologist Andrew Deaner,
who left his seat in the crowd and went on to the pitch to help the
23-year-old, has described the recovery made so far as ‘miraculous.’

Cardiac team: (L-R) Tottenham fan Dr Andrew Deaner who ran onto the pitch to help out on Saturday, Consultant Cardiologist Dr Sam Mohiddin, Tottenham team doctor Dr Shabaaz Mughal and Bolton team doctor Dr Jonathan Tobin

The midfielder has been talking and
even joking, while Spurs medic Jonathan Tobin said the player had told
him on Tuesday that he was ‘fine’.

Mr Deaner said he had had tears in his eyes at witnessing that sign of the player’s sense of humour returning so soon.

He recalled how he had been watching the match with his brother when he saw Muamba collapse and doctors rush to his side.

Turning to his brother, he said: ‘They’re doing CPR. I should go and help.’

His brother agreed, he said, and so the father of three sprang into action.

‘Something sort of told me I should go down,’ he said. ‘The adrenaline starts pumping when you see a cardiac arrest.’

‘We are behind you!’: Barcelona players were a t-shirt in tribute to the Bolton player Fabrice Muamba before their match against Granada this week

‘Get well soon Fabrice’: Messages of support left on a wall at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton, for the footballer who suffered a heart attack last weekend

Consultant cardiologist Dr Sam Mohiddin, who has been caring for Muamba at the hospital, said it was ‘extraordinary’ for someone whose heart has stopped beating for as long as the player’s did to make the kind of progress he has made.

‘Fabrice has continued to demonstrate positive signs of recovery and he has not only exceeded our expectations but also our hopes in the way he’s recovered,’ he said.

‘But this remains very early in what could be a lengthy recovery period.’

Support: Blackburn Rovers’ striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni (left) and Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi (right) wore T-shirts with messages to Muamba during their games in the last week

Care: Bolton Wanderers captain Kevin Davies (left) and midfielder Darren Pratley (right) visit Muamba, 23, in hospital this week

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