Saudi Arabia Expands Eye Care Trip to Gbagada General Hospital in Lagos

Saudi Arabia extends its eye care outreach to Gbagada Hospital, providing Lagos residents with eyeglasses, refractive corrections, screenings, and operations.

The Lagos State Government’s Gbagada General Hospital now receives expanded eye care outreach from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has extended its “Saudi Noor” ophthalmic volunteer program to Lagos State’s Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos, from May 20th to 27th, 2025, as part of its ongoing global mission to provide vital healthcare services to underserved communities, according to a statement released Thursday by Mohammed Alsahabi, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Embassy Press Attaché in Nigeria.

This is an important step in the Kingdom’s continued support of preventive eye care in Nigeria, he said.

In addition to revealing that recipients at Gbagada General Hospital will receive comprehensive eye care services, such as diagnostic eye screenings, cataract surgeries with intraocular lens (IOL) implants, refractive error correction, and prescription eyeglass distribution, Alsahabi said the Lagos phase of the program brings essential ophthalmologic services to one of Nigeria’s most populous states.

According to him, the program is carried out in accordance with the orders of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and it is a fundamental part of KSrelief’s larger mission to aid communities dealing with systemic healthcare issues.

According to the Embassy spokesperson, since starting its blindness prevention campaign in Nigeria in 2019, KSrelief has performed more than 218,000 eye exams, operated on more than 21,000 patients to restore their sight, and given out more than 45,000 pairs of eyeglasses, changing lives and giving people hope in a number of Nigerian states.

He pointed out that thousands of people in northern Nigeria had benefited from the program’s most recent implementation in the states of Yobe, Kano, and Bauchi.

According to Alsahabi, KSrelief’s initiatives in Lagos represent an increasing understanding of the healthcare gap between urban and rural areas and the necessity of addressing eye health issues even in densely populated urban areas. Gbagada General Hospital, a significant referral center in Lagos, is now an essential location for this transformative mission.

He said that since its founding in 2015, KSrelief has carried out more than 3400 relief initiatives in more than 107 countries, demonstrating the organization’s unwavering dedication to humanitarian excellence on a worldwide scale. Its programs to prevent blindness are still in place in Bangladesh, Mauritania, Yemen, and Sudan.

He claimed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has strengthened its ties with Nigeria, its commitment to humanitarian health missions, and its support for Nigeria’s fight against avoidable blindness with this most recent endeavor in Lagos.