Remote Surgery Goes Live in Abuja as Nigeria's Digital Backbone Faces a Stress Test

Nisa Premier Hospital in Abuja has deployed the MicroPort robotic surgical platform for West Africa's first tele-robotic surgery, in partnership with RoboMed Global and Redeemer's Health Village in Lagos. Professor Obi Ekwenna-Davis remotely controlled the robot from Lagos to operate on a kidney cancer patient in Abuja — roughly 500 kilometres away — in a 3-hour procedure. The patient has been discharged. This is the first time the MicroPort system has been used for remote...