Imo Robotic Academy Targets 500 African Surgeons in Two Years

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a consultant urologist and laparoscopic and robotic surgeon, said the partnership was established in August 2026 following a meeting between the university and its partners. He said the meeting culminated in the signing of a memorandum of understanding and the allocation of a building for the academy. “We successfully performed the first surgery in the region in August. We followed up with multiple robotic surgeries

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The Imo State University, in partnership with the Imo Robotic Centre, has established a robotic surgery academy aimed at training at least 500 surgeons and other surgical professionals from across Africa within two years. The academy’s Clinical Lead, Professor Kingsley Ekwueme, who disclosed this, described the initiative as Africa’s first dedicated robotic surgery academy located within a university campus. Ekwueme,

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ocal expertise, train complete surgical teams and make advanced procedures accessible to Nigerians without the need to travel abroad for treatment. He further noted that the academy, which has international faculty members, aims to train 500 robotic surgeons and other surgical team members over the next two years and would also support participating institutions with the procurement and installation of robotic system

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s. “We envisaged that over the next two years we would have trained 500 robotic surgeons and teams. And that would come from Nigeria and across Africa as well. So we expect that from our own calculations that we would be able to train over 250 Nigerian surgeons,” the robotic surgeon added. Continuing, he noted, “We are not only training surgeons, but we are also training the whole surgical team. And this is very impo

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experience in the field, Ekwueme said he had developed a prostate clinic in the United Kingdom and had been involved in pioneering robotic surgery in Nigeria and the wider West and Central African region. He said his team had performed more than 145 robotic procedures through the programme he developed, describing the figure as the highest number recorded by a comparable programme in Africa. Ekwueme said his profess

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Imo robotic academy targets 500 African surgeons in two years

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