The hospital was founded in 1971 as a private hospital intended to be a profit making business but with the death of the founder it became a self governing organisation that has to pay a lease to the founder's widow but does not operate as a for profit clinic. Located in Lunghi, across the water from Freetown accessible via very poor roads.

The hospital suffered serious damage during the civil war, it was at one time used as a base for AU troops and the firing of heavy weapons from the roof resulted in structural damage to the building, rendering it no longer watertight. As a consequence of this, the x ray equipment was rendered inoperable by water damage soon after installation.

The hospital provides healthcare cover for 15,800 people that come from a fairly large area that includes the airport and its workers and some people come from Freetown. The hospital employs 2 doctors, 1 pharmacist and 18 nurses (including 2 midwives) who treated around 500 outpatients and had 100 in patient admissions in January 2010 alone.

Inter Care has begun support for this hospital after a visit in February 2010 as their needs like many others are very great.