Nigeria, June 24 -- The University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and a patient have celebrated a successful kidney transplant, the first at the facility since 2010.

The patient, Yusuf Abdullahi, who underwent the process on Saturday, spoke in a 28-second video recorded after he was discharged from the hospital and certified medically fit to go back home and continue with his life.

"People should come and have their kidney transplants at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. People are just wasting their money on medical tourism. Here, it is excellent and cheap," Mr Abdullahi said.

He urged wealthy Nigerians to help the hospital to enable it to treat complex diseases.

According to the hospital, Mr Abdullahi was one of two ind...