[1] It is located to the northeast of the Conakry Grand Mosque and across the main road from the infamous Camp Boiro.

CBM, Sightsavers and WAHO arranged to build a new facility in the teaching hospital compound, which was opened on 9 April 2010.

Between January and the end of September 2006, 623 malnourished children were admitted, a significant increase over previous years.

[14] A 2008 report from IRIN described the case of Aboubacar Traoré, who took his two-year-old daughter to the hospital for emergency medical treatment.

[15] At the start of 2007, strikes and protests were called due to rising commodity prices and falling living standards, coupled with pervasive corruption and political unrest.

[16] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided six vehicles to take wounded people to Donka Hospital on 22 January 2007.

[18] On 28 September 2009 a demonstration against the military junta at a city stadium was violently suppressed by security forces, with dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries.

[19] Following the 28 September violence, the ICRC gave essential medical and surgical items to Conakry's hospitals, including kits to treat bullet wounds, masks, gloves and saline solution, and also provided body bags.

The ICRC and the Red Cross Society of Guinea tried to reunite family members, particularly children, who had been separated in the violence.

[21] The NGO Terre des hommes was providing meals to patients in the Hospital, with the Health Ministry and private donations assisting in the supply of food.

[22] As follow-up to the violence, the ICRC helped Donka Hospital revise its emergency plan for handling a large influx of patients with bullet wounds.

Supporters of the candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea threw stones at police, who responded with gunfire.

On 16 November 2010, Donka hospital reported treating 30 gunshot wounds, mostly direct shots rather than from stray bullets.

[24] The bleak conditions in the hospital were the subject of a 1996 documentary Donka, radioscopie d'un hôpital africain by the Belgian director Thierry Michel.