Hospitals Some of Us Remember

Bingham Memorial Hospital, 1947

 

Born in Canada in 1865, Dr. Andrew Stirrett was a successful businessman, pharmacist, doctor, linguist, and administrator. At age 37, God burdened him for those who had never heard the gospel, so he sold his businesses and left for Africa, after studying tropical medicine in Liverpool, England. He helped establish the first SIM mission station at Patigi on the Niger River in 1902. He was a small, gentle but determined man, whose passion was preaching in villages throughout Northern Nigeria.

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