Mission to NIGERIA – February 2026
A six-member team of "Heart Doctors" departed from Athens on Monday, 2.2.2026, for Nigeria. With a stopover and overnight stay in Cairo, the mission arrived the next day at noon in the capital of Nigeria, Abuja, and immediately departed by road with a police escort for Minna, where they spent the night as guests of the governor, Mr. Bago of Niger State.
Over the next four days, the team traveled by road through difficult roads to provide medical assistance to the following remote villages in the city of Minna:
4/2 Kuchi village, Munya Local Government Area, Niger State
5/2 Nikuchi village, Paikoro Local Government Area, Niger State
6/2 Dassun Village, Lavun Local Government Area, Niger State
7/2 Kinbokun village, Mokwa Local Government Area, Niger State
On 7/2 in the village of Kinbokun, the team inaugurated a rural clinic which consists of a delivery room, a nursing room and an examination room.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Emir, many officials and crowds of people from the surrounding areas. Following speeches and traditional celebrations with songs and dances.
Early afternoon of the same day, the team departed by road from Kinbokun village for Sunti where they settled after the invitation of the General Manager of Mr. Anlo du Pisani and his wife Tamara, of “Golden Sugar Estate” FMN Koumantaros Group Companies, Sunti, Mokwa, Niger State, offering medical services for three days at the Sunti clinic of the “Sunti Golden Sugar Estate” unit. In addition to the employees of the company complex, crowds of patients who were transported by the company’s trucks from the villages of the wider area of Sunti were examined and received free medication.
On 10/2, after completing the examination of the patients, the team departed from Sunti to Minna where they spent the night. The next morning, escorted by police officers, they departed for Abuja, flying to Cairo where they spent the night. On 12/2, they returned to Athens.
Main diseases:
Malaria, anemia, upper respiratory infections, parasites, skin diseases, otitis, conjunctivitis, urinary tract infections, arthralgias, back pain, chronically infected wounds.
Newborn babies were malnourished due to the mothers ignorance.