Mrs. Solanthalu at ground breaking

Outpatients building under construction; early 1958

Construction; project & date unknown

Baptist Medical Centre before constuction of walkways

The wards in the 1960s

1958 view from the water tower after construction is finished

The cornerstone is laid for the First Baptist Church of Nalerigu, Ghana; 1958

Surgery Building; Photo by IMB photographer Charles L. Gillespie

Photo by IMB photographer Charles L. Gillespie

Staff quarters on north side of compound. Photo by IMB photographer Charles L. Gillespie

Dr. Robert F. Goldie, talking with a patient; his interpreter on right. Photo by IMB photographer Charles L. Gillespie

Mrs. Robert F. Goldie, missionary nurse checking a patients pulse. Photo by IMB photographer Charles L. Gillespie

Missionary Sidney R. Flewellen examining a microscope slide in the lab. Photo by IMB photographer Charles L. Gillespie

Laboratory technician, Julus Aremu at work

Surgery; Missionary Robert F. Goldie, M.D., administering anesthesia; Dr. Frank Ashworth operating; Mrs. Robert F. Goldie, missionary nurse, and a national nurse assisting

Mrs. Sidney Flewellen, missionary, and G.A. girls delivering flowers to a patient

Hospital reservoir; dam, Dr. Frank Ashworth and missionary Robert F. Goldie, M.D. left, checking the water level

Hospital reservoir; Dr. Frank Ashworth, left and Missionary Robert F. Goldie, M.D., examining grass for larvae of the infectious river blindness fly

OPD building before addition of walkways, pre-1965

Extension of laboratory with adjacent x-ray room; circa 1958?

Walkway from OPD to OR; 1960-1965

1960, OPD

Playing a checker game called “draft”

Mrs. W. D. Richardson, missionary, reading Scriptures

Diana Lay gives a gift to the chief

Dr. George M. Faile, Jr., making rounds talks to a patient

Dr. George M. Faile, Jr., performs a procedure a patient’s eye

House #1 with the Faile children standing out front; circa late-1960s

Baptist Medical Center walkways before the addition of consulting rooms; post-1965

Dr. Frank Ashworth, wearing a traditional Mamprusi smock, talking to a young Mamprusi girl

Mrs. C. Hudson Favell, missionary, speaking to woman carrying headload and friend in front. Photo by IMB Photographer Gerald Harvey

Missionary W. D. Richardson, M.D., talking to nurse in covered walkway

OPD building, people going inside

Chapel service at BMC, Missionary Hazel Moon, R.N., seated next to a patient named Kaloa

Woman named Kaloe being admitted to hospital

Consultation room, Missionary W. D. Richardson, M.D., examining woman named Kaloa

Men’s ward, Missionary W.D. Richardson, M.D., examining man with herniorrphy, Mrs. Mary Adedokun assisting

David Baah, Ghanaian nurse, dressing young girl’s infected leg; Mrs. C. Hudson Favell, missionary nurse, and ward attendant assisting

Xray room, Dr. Frank Ashworth, contract worker, making xray of leg of woman name Kaloa

Dr. Frank Ashworth, contract worker, examining small boy on mother’s lap

Operating room, Dr. W. D. Richardson, missionary, operating on man with hernia; African nurse, Ben Nyavor and theatre attendants, John Laari and Wilfred Born assisting

Mrs. Frank Ashworth (Ann), contract worker, paying attendant, Wuni Awunta

Missionary C. Hudson Favell working on electric generator

Office, Mrs. C. Hudson Favell, R.N., discussing schedule with nurse, Spencer Essiam

Missionary residence, Mrs. W.D. Richardson, missionary, reading the Bible to Yabla and Guma in Mampruli language

OPD building front view, 1965

Missionary George M. Faile, Jr., M.D., making rounds checking patients, summer student missionaries assisting him

OPD building; circa 1958?

Surgery in OR; date unknown

BMC employees do hospital laundry

Water tower and ramp at maintenance building

View from water tower late 1960s

Surgery in OR; date unknown

1974

Remnants of original dam. Frances in bottom left.

Construction; project & date unknown

Outpatients wait to be seen on clinic day. Date unknown. Photo by Dr. George Faile II

Wards; date unknown

A patient on a stretcher in theater

Generator room; Replacing the alternator

Patients arrive on clinic day

Theater staff; circa 1980s?