About Us

Our foundation is a powerful showcase of our passion, commitment and dedication to achieving higher quality cardiovascular health care outcomes in Nigeria. We are driven by a force for good ensuring that Nigerians are living longer, healthier lives free from heart disease.

Our Vision

To set the standard of excellence in medical care in Africa

Our MISSION

To deliver the highest quality comprehensive cardiovascular care in Nigeria by innovative use of modern technology and a commitment to local capacity building, education and collaborative research.

Our History

For Over 10 years, First Cardiology Consultants (FCC) has been at the forefront of comprehensive cardiovascular and preventive healthcare treatment & management in Nigeria. First Cardiology Consultants (FCC) was created with a vision to be the avant-garde providers of cardiology and cardiovascular services of the highest quality in Nigeria. The premise behind the creation of FCC is that the Nigerian market is mature and sophisticated enough to sustain locally, the same quality of cardiovascular healthcare services currently sought abroad. We have over the past years evolved to become a comprehensive multi-specialty hospital (FCC Healthcare) with the addition of cardiac surgery and other surgical specialties.

In our operations over the years, we saw the need to extend this access to premium cardiovascular healthcare to every Nigerian, regardless of their status. This is what birthed the HEALTHY HEART FOUNDATION.

Our Founding Doctors

Dr. Yemi Johnson

Group Managing Director

Dr. Yemi Johnson is an intervention cardiologist who trained in Columbia University New York and Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda California. He worked in Mid Carolina Cardiology, Charlotte North Carolina and Wake Forest University Medical Center Winston North Carolina.Since starting FCC, he has pioneered contemporary invasive cardiology in Nigeria including the first coronary angioplasty with stent implantation, first non-surgical (percutaneous) closure of holes in the heart for children and adults; and now performs these procedures routinely. Dr. Johnson has also established a non-surgical peripheral vascular disease program to restore blood flow to blocked arteries of the arms and legs. This program has helped salvage several limbs which hitherto would have been amputated due to poor circulation. He has also initiated a busy pacemaker and implantable defibrillator program which offers prophylactic and therapeutic care to Patients with advanced cardiac failure.

Dr. Kofo Ogunyankin

Group Managing Director

Dr. Kofo Ogunyankin the Co Medical Director is a cardiologist and a specialist in echocardiography. He trained in the United Kingdom being a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1991 as well as State University of Stony Brook Long Island New York, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and Tufts University New England Medical Center Boston. He has been in academic practice and worked in Columbia University New York, Queens University in Kingston Ontario Canada, Northwestern University and Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Chicago. His research interests include early detection of heart disease including hypertensive heart disease using echocardiography.The echocardiographic laboratory at FCC is now the only Center in Africa designated by the World Alliance of Societies of Echocardiography (WASE) for the international multicenter study for deriving normative values of various echocardiographic measurements.