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THE BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTRE MARKS 60 YEARS OF QUALITY HEALTH PROVISION

The Baptist Medical Centre, at Nalerigu in the Northern Region, has marked 60 years of providing quality medical services to Ghanaians with a colourful durbar, graced by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, at Nalerigu.

Addressing the celebrants at the ceremony, Vice President Bawumia commended the management and staff of the Centre for what he described as “Sixty years of excellent health care delivery.”

He, thereby, encouraged them, saying: “Continue to exhibit dedication and professionalism in your work as a medical team. Not many people know that you provide free nutrition services to malnourished clients and that your unique way of treating malnourished children is one of the best in the country.”

Popularly known as BMC, the Centre was established in August 1958, by the then International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention of the United States of America, through the instrumentality of the then Overlord of Mamprugu, Naa Sheriga Abdulai and Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia a former Chairman of the Council of State, both of blessed memory.

They were the fathers of the Nayiri, the current overlord of Mamprugu Vice President Bawumia, respectively.

Naa Sheriga provided the Hospital with 746 acres of land. Six decades later, the Baptist Medical Centre continues to serve as a major referral facility for a huge swathe of the population in the three northern regions, as well as patients from neighbouring countries.

It currently serves more than 200 patients a day, and carries out an average of 5,000 major and minor surgeries; as well as more than 3,000 deliveries annually.

Doctors at the BMC also carried out the first Cornea transplant in Ghana 51 years ago, in 1967.

In recognition of its remarkable contribution to health care delivery, especially, in rural Ghana, the State conferred on BMC and the entire staff a Grand Medal of Ghana (Honorary Division) in 1997.

Officials of the Baptist Medical Centre later presented a citation to the Vice President and the Overlord of Mamprugu, Naa Bohigu Abdulai Mahami Sheriga in recognition of their ongoing contribution to the growth of the Centre.

The Minister for Local Government, who is also Member of Parliament for Nalerigu, Hajia Alima Mahama, and other government officials, as well as long serving and deserving staff were also honored.

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