Lagos Private Diagnostic Centre — MRI, CT & Ultrasound Imaging

Requirement

Nigeria has over 200 million people and a diagnostic imaging capacity that would be inadequate for a fraction of that number. Patients in Lagos routinely wait weeks for an MRI, travel between facilities for a CT, or are treated on clinical impression alone because the imaging that would confirm a diagnosis is not practically available. This investment establishes a private diagnostic centre in Lagos equipped with MRI, CT and ultrasound. The economics of imaging are well understood and unusually clean for African healthcare: the equipment is the dominant cost, utilisation is the dominant variable, and referral relationships with clinicians and hospitals are what drive utilisation. A centre that secures referral flow reaches profitability quickly; one that does not carries expensive idle machines. That makes the referral strategy, not the equipment specification, the thing investors should examine. Imaging is also a business where uptime and image quality determine reputation among referring clinicians, so service contracts, power redundancy and radiographer quality are commercial decisions rather than operational details. $1.5M-$3M is sought, covering equipment acquisition, facility fit-out, power infrastructure and working capital to the utilisation ramp.