Franciscan Missionaries of Mary sisters came from Rawalpindi to start a hospital at the request of the Mill Hill Fathers.

On 22 October 1947, Pashtun tribal raiders backed by Pakistan military apparatus invaded the then independent princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.

[8] Six people were killed at the hospital—a British colonel and his wife, a nurse, a patient, the husband of a physician, and Sister Teresalina.

[8][a] According to survivors, a missionary-educated Pakistani Army officer drove the raiders out of the hospital.

[8] In 1965, auxiliary nurse midwifery and female multi purpose health worker courses were started at the hospital.