The Digfer Hospital was constructed in the 1960s, with Italian engineers (Cooperativa Architetti e Ingegneri, Reggio Emilia) contracted to build its premises.

[2] In 2013, the Federal Government of Somalia reached an agreement with the Turkish authorities to refurbish and modernize the Digfer Hospital's infrastructure and services in keeping with international standards.

[7] The 13,500 square-meter indoor premises includes 20 neonatal incubators, 14 newborn intensive care beds, 12 intensive care beds, 4 operating rooms, and laboratory and radiology units.

[7] As of January 2015, the hospital will be staffed by about 91 Somali and 52 Turkish hospital administrators, head doctors, administrative directors or financial directors, as well as 40 Somali and 5 Turkish security personnel.

Around 36 Somali assistants are also scheduled to participate in the facility's annual training program.