The Bolgatanga Regional Hospital — officially the **Upper East Regional Hospital, Bolgatanga** — is the main referral hospital for Ghana's Upper East Region, serving Bolgatanga (the regional capital) and the wider catchment of the Upper East and neighbouring communities across the border into Burkina Faso. It sits in Bolgatanga, the hot, dry, savannah capital of the Upper East Region, on the road network that links Navrongo, Bawku, Zebilla and Paga. As a regional hospital it functions as the apex referral facility for the districts around it — district hospitals and health centres in Bongo, Tongo, Sandema, Bawku and beyond send complicated cases there — and it also serves as a teaching and clinical training site for health workers posted to the north. It is a Ghana Health Service facility under the Upper East Regional Health Directorate. Its services cover the usual regional-hospital range: outpatient and inpatient care, maternity and obstetrics, surgery, paediatrics, internal medicine, laboratory and diagnostics, and public health programmes. Like most northern regional hospitals, it has historically struggled with the pressures common to the region — high patient loads, equipment and staffing gaps, ambulance and blood-bank constraints, and the seasonal spike in cases during the dry season and meningitis belt period. The Upper East sits in Ghana's meningitis belt, so the hospital plays a frontline role in outbreak response, alongside malaria, diarrhoeal disease and malnutrition work. The hospital has benefited from various upgrade and expansion efforts over the years — government and donor-supported projects aimed at expanding wards, theatres and specialist capacity — and it remains a key node in Ghana's push to strengthen northern healthcare. If you're looking for the very latest on a specific new block, equipment or appointment there, that would be a recent development I'd want to verify against current reporting rather than guess at. If you tell me what you need specifically — visiting hours, a department, directions, recruitment, or a particular service — I'll go deeper. As the Akan say, *"Ti koro nkɔ agyina"* — one head does not go into council; ask and I'll bring the full picture.