Medical Tourism: How Weekly Robotic Surgery in Lagos is Saving Nigeria $20,000 Per Patient

THISDAYLIVE | 22-10-2026 02:53am |

What was meant to mark one year of robotic surgery turned into a larger story: a human audit of Nigeria’s medical tourism burden and how it is being solved at home, one scarless operation at a time. With prostate cancer still the most common cancer in Nigerian men and thousands spending $15,000 to $20,000 abroad for treatment, a Lagos hospital’s ...

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