Then, the defunct North-East Government conceived the idea of constructing a Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri, the State capital.

Being the first, and largest Teaching Hospital in the North- East sub region of Nigeria, UMTH covers 64,773 hectares of land.

It has, since inception, witnessed monumental development in infrastructure, equipment and manpower, which culminated into its current designation as " Center of Excellence " in Immunology and Infectious Diseases, by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

The three(3) mandates of the UMTH are: 1) Provision of quality tertiary healthcare services in both curative and preventive medicine for people in the North- East and beyond.

The hospital serves a population of more than 2.5 million in the North - East region and the neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republics.