Four years, four awards. The Medserve-LUTH Cancer Centre, known as MLCC, was named “Most Outstanding Oncology Centre in Nigeria” at the twelfth edition of the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Awards (NHEA) on 26 June 2026. The centre announced the win in a statement the following Sunday.
Dr Muhammed Habeebu, the centre’s Chief Clinical Coordinator, collected the award in Lagos. Health Minister of State Dr Iziaq Adekunle Salako was guest of honour, and Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu served as chief host. The organisers were Global Health Project and Resources, working with the Anadach Group.
What the centre is
MLCC sits inside the Lagos University Teaching Hospital in Idi-Araba and opened in May 2019. It treats outpatients only. Patients who need a bed are admitted to the Alima Attah Oncology Wards at LUTH, right next door. In plain terms, that means one site handles consultations, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, brachytherapy and immunotherapy, plus support such as a nutrition clinic, counselling and a patient support group.
The centre’s own figures give a sense of the load. It has served more than 13,000 unique cancer patients since opening, with roughly 2,500 new cases arriving each year. It has linear accelerators and what it describes as the country’s only three-dimensional high dose rate brachytherapy facility, and ten clinical and radiation oncologists on staff. The centre says its aim is to spare patients a trip abroad for treatment.
A run that started in 2023
Medserve lists the same award for 2023, 2024 and 2025. In 2024, ThisDay reported that LUTH won the top oncology prize at the 10th NHEA, held in Lagos with more than 30 awards presented. LUTH’s chief medical director at the time, Prof Wasiu Adeyemo, said: “We started this centre in 2019 with seven consultant oncologists and none of them has left. We have added two.”
This year the centre was also among the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria members nominated at the same event, whose theme was “Innovation, Local Manufacturing and Digital Transformation in Healthcare.”
In its statement the centre called the streak “a profound validation of our team’s relentless dedication,” and argued that its unified, multidisciplinary approach is changing survival prospects across the region.
Sources
- Medserve-LUTH Cancer Centre retains most outstanding oncology award four-peat (News Agency of Nigeria)
- HFN Celebrates Members Recognised at the 12th Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Awards (The Sun Nigeria)
- LUTH Emerges Best Cancer Centre in Nigeria (ThisDay)
- Medserve-LUTH Cancer Centre (MLCC), Medserve
