Along with specialist consultations, IGMH houses investigative and imaging technologies in diagnostics.

After this, the government established and started the medical healthcare services in Central Hospital.

In October 1986, the Maldivian government requested India's assistance in building a large scale hospital during Rajiv Gandhi's official visit.

It was agreed to by Rajiv Gandhi; two years later, India and Maldives signed a memorandum of understanding in October 1988.

The hospital was officially handed over to the Maldivian Government by the Indian Union Minister for Urban Development, Shrimathi Sheila Kaul, on 2 February 1994.