The hospital has a 220 approved beds capacity and it has been supported by the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing[2] and the Government of Tanzania.

Named after the Anglo-Saxon missionary, Saint Walburga, the hospital was built in 1959 by Sister Doctor Tekla Stinnesbeck at the site of a dispensary that had been running for 12 years.

In 1982 Sister Doctor Raphaela Haendler oversaw the rehabilitation and expansion of the hospital to 150 beds.

Lindi region is surrounded by six districts and all combined these have an estimated total of more than 900,000 inhabitants (2012 census).

Operations cover the east-southern zone of Tanzania between Kilwa and the border of Mozambique.