Each year, a surgeon from Tampa Bay trades his vacation for an operating room in Nigeria — not out of obligation, but out of a bond that geography cannot dissolve. Dr. Adeolu Adeboye, born in Nigeria and practicing in Florida, leads volunteer medical teams through his Shekinah Global Healthcare Foundation, treating hundreds of patients daily in communities where years can pass between a diagnosis and its remedy. His fifth mission, departing September 20 for Ibadan, is less a humanitarian gesture than a quiet argument: that the distance between a treatable condition and its treatment is a dista
Tampa Bay trauma surgeon embarks on fifth medical mission to Nigeria
Underserved communities in Nigeria lack access to basic medical care, with patients experiencing years-long treatment delays for treatable conditions like skin cancer.