Originally meant to isolate 270 leprosy patients, this hospital has grown to accommodate 530: 430 in home blocks and 100 in the hospital wards. The institution is located on the southern bank of the river Mahanadi in Nayabazar area of the Cuttack city. (Jayadev Sahu, “One Hundred Years of Leprosy Work in Orissa 1885-1984” Unpublished thesis, 1989: 135).