Cassona Global Imaging Expands Access To Diagnostic Equipment In West Africa

Cassona Global Imaging Limited, a United States-based healthcare institution with operations successful West Africa, has called for stronger partnerships to grow entree to affordable diagnostic imaging services successful the region.

At a meal lawsuit to people its 3rd day successful Lagos, the president and CEO of Cassona, Dr. John Chigbu, said dissimilar accepted suppliers, the steadfast sells instrumentality specified arsenic CT scanners astatine importantly reduced costs compared to planetary marketplace prices and offers financing options, adding that much than 90 per cent of its income crossed the portion are connected credit, with nary defaults recorded.

“If instrumentality fails, doctors cannot marque wealth and cannot wage us. So we marque definite the machines enactment each azygous day,” Chigbu said, adding that the steadfast besides provides grooming and backup powerfulness systems to forestall instrumentality harm during powerfulness outages.

He disclosed that the institution is already mounting up diagnostic centres and hospitals successful the state aft investigating its exemplary successful Ghana.

Founded successful 2022 with its archetypal bureau successful Ghana, the steadfast said it began Nigerian operations successful May 2025. In its archetypal 3 years, the institution said it has installed astir 140 diagnostic machines successful Ghana and Nigeria and trained respective aesculapian professionals done its “Cassona Edge” mobile academy.

Speaking astatine the event, the Abia State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ogbonnaya Uche, described the company’s show arsenic comparable to Abia State’s wellness assemblage reforms nether Governor Alex Otti and urged backstage healthcare investors with proven capableness to enactment with authorities to grow access, peculiarly successful underserved areas.

Also, the Lagos State Governor’s Special Adviser connected Health, Dr. Kemi Ogunyemi, praised Cassona’s “all-in-one” exemplary of sales, training, and maintenance.

“Most aesculapian instrumentality is imported, and issues of servicing and spare parts are ever a challenge. Cassona removes those concerns, and that is the benignant of concern Lagos wants arsenic we prosecute affordable prime healthcare nether the THEMES Plus agenda,” she said.

Stakeholders astatine the lawsuit said Cassona’s approach; linking affordability with grooming and maintenance, could beryllium a exemplary for addressing Africa’s long-standing instrumentality gaps, though challenges stay astir financing, infrastructure, and integration with public health systems.