It opened on 21 May 1880, named after the physician and naturalist Teodoro Vilardebó.

Today the hospital is very deteriorated, with broken walls and floors, lack of medicines, beds, and rooms for the personnel.

[2] It has an emergency service, outpatient, clinic and internal rooms and employs approximately 610 staff, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, administrators, guards, among others.

[3] The average patient age is 30 years, more than half of whom arrive by court order; 42% suffer from schizophrenia, 18% suffer from depression and mania [4] and also a high percentage of drug addicted patients.

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