ABSTRACT
Methodist medical work began on mission house verandas, and gradually expanded into dispensaries, clinics and hospitals. The Methodist General Hospital was renamed 'The Workers' Hospital' but its original name was not forgotten and when the repression of Christianity was relaxed the Chinese characters for Universal Love were reinstated on the gateway. An enlightened regional government had built the hospital and asked the Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian churches to run it, on condition that they did so jointly. The local people valued the little Methodist dressing station but any other medical attention necessitated a fifty-mile journey to Sunyani, so a block of the Methodist School was converted into a ward to facilitate the birth of the hospital. In 1988 Ros Colwill, then the Welfare Officer at Uzuakoli, shared with Nigerian Methodist leaders and with the Secretaries in London a vision of a centre for people with severe mental disorders.
