The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has successfully completed a five-day medical outreach in Kano State, Nigeria, offering life-saving open-heart surgeries and cardiac catheterisations at no cost to patients.
The campaign, which ran from August 18 to 22, 2025, brought together a 25-member team of Saudi medical volunteers who carried out dozens of complex procedures with remarkable success. Patients and their families described the intervention as a beacon of hope, providing access to advanced care that would otherwise have been unaffordable or inaccessible.
KSrelief officials said the initiative reflects Saudi Arabia’s commitment to global humanitarian work and its ongoing efforts to provide critical medical support to vulnerable communities.
The Kano mission was part of KSrelief’s broader global programme of voluntary medical interventions, which has already made significant impact in countries such as Yemen, where dozens of open-heart surgeries and over 140 cardiac catheterizations were performed in Mukalla; Tanzania, where children benefitted from specialised pediatric cardiac procedures; and Mauritania, where the center pioneered 37 minimally invasive laparoscopic heart surgeries.
Similar missions have also been conducted in Indonesia, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, with hundreds of patients receiving life-saving treatment from Saudi medical volunteers.
These interventions, widely praised for their precision and high success rates, not only save lives but also underscore Saudi Arabia’s growing humanitarian footprint through what observers have described as “medical diplomacy.”
Officials noted that the Kano project, like previous ones, was designed to alleviate suffering, provide quality healthcare to those most in need, and strengthen ties of solidarity across continents.
