Saudi medical team completes life-saving heart surgeries in Nigeria

Saudi medical team completes life-saving heart surgeries in Nigeria

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) has completed a five-day voluntary medical outreach in Kano, offering open-heart surgeries and cardiac catheterisations at no cost to patients.

The campaign, held between 18 and 22 August, brought a 25-member Saudi medical team to Nigeria, where they carried out dozens of complex, life-saving procedures for people who otherwise lacked access to such specialised care.

The initiative in Kano is part of KSrelief’s wider global programme aimed at delivering critical medical interventions to vulnerable communities. Over the years, the centre has led missions across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

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In Yemen, KSrelief doctors have performed dozens of open-heart surgeries and more than 140 cardiac catheterisations in Mukalla. In Tanzania, the centre has provided advanced paediatric heart surgeries, while in Mauritania, its specialists pioneered 37 minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures—rare and costly operations in the region.

Similar missions have been conducted in Indonesia, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, where hundreds of patients have benefited from complex heart surgeries and catheterisations.

KSrelief officials said the Kano outreach underscores Saudi Arabia’s continued commitment to global humanitarian health projects, designed to ease suffering and provide free, quality healthcare for vulnerable communities across continents.

 

Saudi medical team completes life-saving heart surgeries in Nigeria