October 2025

Written by: Dr. Ummu Mayana

In my 30+ years as a clinician, caregiver, and Nigerian in diaspora, one theme continues to keep me awake at night: the struggle for equitable access to quality healthcare.

No healthcare system is perfect. Medical advancements and world-class facilities, while expanding care options, often add layers of complexity that leave patients navigating unfamiliar systems, vulnerable to exploitation, inefficiency, and emotional exhaustion. It's a reminder that medical progress must go hand in hand with empathy and guidance. That's why navigation tools and support are more critical today than ever.

Horizon Health Network (HHN) was built on this premise and a simple mission: to make quality healthcare accessible, ethical, and seamless for all, starting with Nigeria.

At its core, HHN is about strengthening systems so that medical tourism becomes a choice rather than a necessity. Because systems change takes time, we pair this with clinician-led healthcare facilitation, meticulously designed around personalised and joint-up care.

So far, we have consistently saved patients and their funders thousands per referral while ensuring that every care decision is made in their best interests.

What sets HHN apart is our focus on patient agency. From pre-vetting healthcare providers and B2B partners to clinician-led precision triage and post-care debriefs, every step is anchored in protecting and empowering patients and their support systems.

Some recent highlights:

🕌 Last month, we visited two hospitals in Saudi Arabia as part of our vetting process. Meeting the Saudi German Health teams in Makkah and Madinah served as an apt reminder that collaboration rather than competition will shape the future of global healthcare.

🤝 Our team is growing with this in mind. Next month, we will be launching our Doctors' Collaborative, creating synergies with exceptional diaspora clinicians who each bring deep experience in healthcare leadership, facilitation, and systems strengthening.

Our patient cases so far have shown that our model can mobilise diverse actors to tackle complex healthcare challenges quickly, affordably, and compassionately. The most valuable asset we exchange with our partners is not money; it is knowledge and agency-building tools. If we can scale this, we can ensure that excellence becomes the norm rather than the exception while democratising access to quality healthcare for all.

We have a lot in the pipeline and will be sharing more updates soon. Follow along to stay connected with our journey.

July 2025

Written by: Dr. Garba Sani

After more than four decades in medicine (from performing surgery to leading a family medicine practice, teaching the next generation of clinicians, and contributing to research), I’ve learned something that cuts across every setting: a healthcare system only works when patients can navigate it with dignity, clarity, and trust.

As a Nigerian in diaspora, I’ve seen both the strengths and blind spots of high-resource and low-resource systems. In each, patients can feel lost; clinicians, overstretched; and progress, uneven. What stays constant is the need for empathy and connection: between doctor and patient; and between systems and the people they serve.

That belief led us to build Horizon Health Network (HHN), with the aim of helping people find quality care that’s coordinated, ethical, and centred on their wellbeing, wherever they are. A large part of our work is about nudging the system that exists, encouraging it to reorganise in ways that normalise unconditional excellence.

We’re starting by addressing Nigeria’s medical tourism crisis, but our vision extends beyond one geography and one system flaw.

So far, our work at HHN has focused on: ✅ Supporting patients and funders through clinician-led guidance. ✅ Ensuring continuity of care (before, during, and after treatment) is never left to chance. ✅ Strengthening home systems so that travelling abroad for care becomes a choice, not a necessity. ✅ Bringing together diaspora clinicians and partners who believe collaboration is the future of healthcare.