The Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu is one of Ghana's oldest and most respected mission hospitals — founded in 1957 by the Southern Baptist Convention, it sits in the North East Region (formerly part of the Northern Region) and has served as the de facto referral hospital for much of Ghana's north-east for nearly seven decades. **Origins and mission.** The BMC was established by Southern Baptist missionaries as a small clinic and grew into a full hospital, becoming the anchor of Baptist medical work in Ghana. Its founding coincided with a wave of mission hospitals across the north — the same era that produced the Baptist Medical Centre at Nalerigu's sister institutions — driven by the recognition that the savannah north was desperately underserved by colonial-era health infrastructure concentrated in the coastal south. **Role in the health system.** Nalerigu BMC functions as a district-level referral hospital for the Gambaga–Nalerigu–Walewale corridor and beyond, and it is closely associated with the training of health workers — notably as a teaching site for medical and nursing students, and through its long partnership with the Ghana Health Service. It is also known for its work in maternal and child health, surgery, and community outreach across the North East Region. **The mission-hospital tradition.** Nalerigu belongs to a proud Ghanaian lineage — alongside institutions like the Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, Komfo Anokye's mission roots, and the Catholic hospitals of the north — where church-founded facilities filled gaps the state could not, and where the healing ministry was understood as inseparable from evangelism and education. The hospital's name carries the town's own history: Nalerigu is the traditional capital of the Mamprugu kingdom, seat of the Nayiri, so the BMC sits at the heart of one of Ghana's great traditional states. *Akan proverb fits here: "Se wo were fi na wosan kofa a, yenkyi" — Sankofa, go back and fetch it. Nalerigu's story is a reminder that Ghana's healthcare present was fetched from these mission foundations.* One honest note: I don't have verified current figures for the BMC's bed capacity, staffing, or its present administrative status (it has operated in various partnerships over the years) — if you need today's specifics, say the word and I'll search deeper.