Medical volunteer Anna Leigh Breedlove performs a minor procedure on a patient in the surgical theatre at the Baptist Medical Centre of Nalerigu, Ghana. Breedlove is a physician assistant student from Alabama who came to work alongside an IMB medical missionary for two months through the IMB’s Global Health Initiative.

A medical student volunteer from Georgia Regents University reviews medical protocol documents during a consult with a Ghanaian patient at the Baptist Medical Centre in northern Ghana. volunteer Dr. Nadine Nakazono sees a patient in clinic at the Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu, Ghana. IMB Photo

Volunteer medical student Pam Choi comforts a young boy as he has a wound cleaned at the Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu, Ghana. IMB Photo

IMB missionary Dr. George Faile III performs a c-section in the OR of the Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu, Ghana. Medical student volunteer Pam Choi assists. The hospital performs about 1200 surgeries a year and the most common are hernia repairs and c-sections. IMB Photo

IMB missionary Dr. George Faile III performs a c-section in the OR of the Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu, Ghana. Medical student volunteer Pam Choi assists. The hospital performs about 1,200 surgeries a year and the most common are hernia repairs and c-sections. IMB Photo

Sanyati Baptist hospital is the nearest hospital for many small communities. The next hospital is about sixty miles down a very pot-hole filled path. People come from all over the county to receive very low, to no cost, medical care. Sanyati will not turn people away if they can not pay. Some people have even paid their medical bills with livestock.

Dr. Byler, center, performs a hydrocele surgery on a patient. He does everything in the hospital from surgeries to helping children that have put foreign objects in their ear.

Nicola MacRobert, far left, works at the hospital as her medical internship from a university in Cape Town, South Africa. IMB Photo

Jessica Van Bibber, a 4th year medical student volunteering at the Baptist Medical Centre in Nalerigu, Ghana, examines an elderly Konkomba man. IMB Photo

Jamie Luffman, right, a medic from West Hills Baptist Church in Lebanon, Tennessee, and his nephew Heath Stone, a pre-med student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, pray with patients after treating them in their tent at the Fond Parisien Disaster Recovery Center in Fond Parisien, Haiti. Stone asked his uncle to join him on his spring break trip to Haiti. IMB Photo

Heath Stone, right, a pre-med student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, makes his morning rounds at the Fond Parisien Disaster Recovery Center in Fond Parisien, Haiti. IMB Photo

Heath Stone, center, 19, a freshman pre-med student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, makes his afternoon rounds at the Fond Parisien Disaster Recovery Center in Fond Parisien, Haiti. IMB Photo

Heath Stone, right, 19, a freshman pre-med student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his uncle, Jamie Luffman, a medic from West Hills Baptist Church in Lebanon, Tennessee, make their afternoon rounds at the Fond Parisien Disaster Recovery Center in Fond Parisien, Haiti. Stone asked his uncle to join him on his spring break trip to Haiti. IMB Photo