This leprosarium was set up to ease the overcrowded nearby leprosarium at Makutupora.

The land had already been allocated by 23 June, 1961, when Dr ND Fraser made a tour of the area as Medical Secretary of The Mission to Lepers.

Source: ND Fraser, "A review of leprosy work in Ethiopia, Uganda, N. Rhodesia and Tanganyika", Lep Rev, 33.2 (1962): 141-153; on p. 150 .