The hospital boasts 241 beds, handles an average of 1,195 psychiatric inpatient admissions and 20,000 outpatients on a yearly basis.
The facility was staffed by attendants who were primarily unskilled labourers working for the municipality with no healthcare qualifications.
[4] The hospital itself underwent several expansion projects in the 1970s and 1980s; the child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient department was opened in 1975, an 88-bed unit for chronic patients.
A liaison psychiatry service was also established with Bahrain's main hospital, Salmaniya Medical Complex in 1979.
[4] In 2009, A study on clinicians based in the hospital revealed high rates of burnouts, particularly amongst mental health occupational therapy staff.