The infrastructure was completed in 1991, it was originally served as a polyclinic and later a general

hospital due to the lack of Medical Specialists.

During the Genocide and war in 1994 , it was a refugee camp and medical centre for thousands of displaced persons.

Specialist services only offered from 1998 after involvement of Netcare South Africa and the Government of Rwanda.

Since 1998 KFH has been providing a high level of general medical care.

In 2005 , the KFH reincorporated as non-profit King Faisal Hospital, Kigali asbl;

began a quality improvement effort aimed at achieving and sustaining international accreditation, and began planning Substantial capital improvements.

The Government of Rwanda gave the national Medical Referral Board function to the hospital ;

one of the hospital's prime objectives is to reduce the need for Rwandese to travel abroad for medical care.