[3] The hospital opened in 2008 and serves a population of over 8 million people.
[3] In 2022, the hospital had an estimate of 3,600 staff[5] with Kibrom Gebreselassie as the Chief Executive Director.
[6] In 2020, during the Tigray War, the hospital's staff struggled to keep up with the influx of trauma patients and was running low in surgical supplies.
[7] In 2022, over 60 patients with kidney disease died due to lack of medical supplies and 81 patients died due to a lack of medical oxygen.
[5] The hospital remained short of medical supplies in January 2023, after the war ended.