From Kabusa village in Abuja, the African Medical Centre of Excellence looks like a building most Nigerians would walk past, assuming it was not meant for them. Its chief executive, Dr Brian Deaver, wants them to walk in instead.
Deaver has worked in healthcare for more than 30 years, running surgical facilities and hospitals and advising large employers in the US and elsewhere on how to identify and reduce financial and clinical risk. During the COVID-19 lockdowns he was doing some work in South America, reclaiming mercury from water polluted by mining.
That was when he started thinking about his six children. His work on how primary care is delivered and financed in the US had been “somewhat consequential,” he says, but it was so complex that he worried they would not know what their father had done or be able to explain it.
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