It is named after António Simões Mendes (1930–1966), a nurse born in Canchungo who treated PAICG fighters during the War of Independence, was jailed by PIDE in 1961 and killed in a Portuguese Air Force raid in February 1966.

[1] In 2011, it contained 417 beds and offered 21 specialisations, of which the maternity ward, pediatrics, ophtalmology, radiology and the laboratory were the most sought after.

[3] On 20 October 2016, a factory for medicinal oxygen was inaugurated on the hospital site.

[4] At the end of 2018, the hospital had more than 500 beds, and one doctor was specialised in cardiology.

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