The Department provides acute, community and rehabilitation care through its units to psychiatric patients in the central province. Acute care is provided by a adult acute care unit and 12 bed neuropsychiatry units. This unit is staffed by a senior registrar, two registrars, two nursing sisters, thirty staff grade nurses, one social worker, two occupational therapists and twenty nursing assistants. The lecturers in the department provide consultant services and are supported by clinical registrars and a probationary lecturer. The department has the services of a psychologist also. The acute care unit provides in patient services and a range of out patient services which include 4 weekly general adult psychiatry and weekly clinics on child psychiatry, alcohol and drug use disorders, sex therapy and mental retardation.

Out patient clinics of the psychiatry unit were started in 1980.different clinics had been added in time to time, to the requirements. Clinics are done in 6 days, from Mondays to Saturdays.