Nalerigu Government Hospital is the oldest and most historically significant health facility in the north-east of Ghana — a mission-founded hospital in Nalerigu, the capital of the North East Region, that grew out of Baptist missionary medicine in the 1950s and today anchors healthcare for the Mamprugu traditional area and beyond. The hospital's roots lie with the Baptist Medical Centre, established by Southern Baptist missionaries who came to the Nalerigu area in the early 1950s. It began as a small mission clinic serving a vast, medically underserved savannah region, and over the decades expanded into a full general hospital with surgical, maternity, paediatric and eye-care services. For generations of people across Mamprugu — the kingdom of the Nayiri, overlord of the Mamprusi — Nalerigu was where you went when you were seriously ill, often after long journeys by foot, bicycle or lorry from villages across what are now the North East and Upper East regions. Its reputation was built on mission medicine: a place known for training nurses and midwives, for pioneering eye surgery and cataract work in the north, and for a spirit of service that drew doctors and volunteers from Ghana and abroad. The Baptist Medical Centre name is still how many older northerners know the facility, even though it now operates within Ghana Health Service structures as Nalerigu Government Hospital, serving as a referral centre for the North East Region. Culturally, Nalerigu itself is deeply significant — it is the seat of the Nayiri, king of Mamprugu, one of the great Mole-Dagbani states alongside Dagbon and Nanumba. The hospital sits in that same historic town, near the Nayiri's palace and the famous Nalerigu Defence Wall, the ancient mud-and-stone fortification attributed to the legendary warrior-king Naa Jeringo. So the facility is not just a hospital; it is part of a town that has been a centre of northern governance, Islam, and tradition for centuries. If you need current details — bed capacity, the sitting medical director, new theatre or maternity blocks, or the latest on the long-discussed upgrade to specialist status — those change and I'd want a verified source rather than guess. But as a historic medical institution, Nalerigu Government Hospital stands as one of the great mission legacies of northern Ghana: *"Duadaa ba nyɛvuli"* — healing is life.