AMCE Abuja will provide a range of medical services including diagnostics, treatment, nuclear medicine, surgery and post-surgical care. It will also focus on innovative research, development and education to improve the quality of care in the region. To achieve this, the project is being developed in partnership with King’s College Hospital in London – AMCE’s official clinical partner, The Christie Hospital in Manchester – the largest single site cancer centre in Europe, and the University of Wisconsin Teaching Hospital in the US. The centre will also be supported by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and serve as the largest and most diverse biobank in the region. 

The facility, the first of its kind in Africa, is being built in four phases. The first phase, a 170-bed specialist hospital is well underway, with plans to scale up to 500 beds by the third phase. The hospital’s seven floors have been constructed and the façade and building services are currently being installed including a central plant room housing the hospital’s main MEPF equipment. 

The hospital also includes a free-standing Cyclotron building for state-of-the-art cancer diagnosis and treatment, with the capacity to provide radioisotopes locally and regionally, as well as Positron Emission Tomography. Adri Metzer, Design Manager explained: “Our team are working in close collaboration with the specialist supplier of the Cyclotron building to design the infrastructure, and together, we’ve been able to share a wealth of engineering knowledge and experience. As part of the process, we visited the site of a Cyclotron building in South Africa where we could compare firsthand the design elements and specifications required by AMCE and get a feel for what the finished facility will look like.”