It runs a specialist program to repair obstetric fistulas, that was founded by Dr. Maura Lynch; one of about six centers in the country that can do so.

The hospital is administered by the Daughters of Mary Sisters, an indigenous religious congregation.

[5] The hospital has a comprehensive community based primary healthcare program, including an HIV/AIDS treatment center.

The area served by the hospital extends to the neighboring districts of Sembabule, Lyantonde, Bukomansimbi, Kalangala, Kalungu, Kyotera, Lwengo and Rakai.

[7] At the invitation of the late Archbishop Joseph Kiwanuka (1899 - 1966), the first African Roman Catholic Bishop in sub-Saharan Africa, the Sisters of the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM) founded a First Aid Post at Kitovu, Masaka, Uganda in 1955.