Kudakwashe Matereke, Director, Regional Operations (Anglophone West Africa), African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank); Dr. Aisha Umar, Chief Medical Officer, African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE), Abuja; Dr. George Elombi, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank); Brian Deaver, Chief Executive Officer, African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE); and Dr. Gloria Rowland, Chief Nursing Officer, African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE), during Dr. George Elombi's visit and tour of the AMCE facility in Abuja.

The African Medical Centre of Excellence Abuja, has revealed that it treated more than 5,000 patients from over 20 countries across four continents within its first year of operation, highlighting what it described as growing confidence in Africa’s capacity to deliver world-class specialist healthcare.

The milestone was disclosed in a statement released on Sunday by the AMCE following the visit of the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Dr George Elombi, to the facility in Abuja as part of his working tour of Nigeria and the wider region.

According to the statement, Elombi’s visit reaffirmed Afreximbank’s commitment to supporting Africa’s healthcare sovereignty through sustained investment in specialist medical infrastructure.