The history of the Hospital officially begun with the Decision for the establishment of a Republic Hospital for people suffering mental disorders in the village of Bardovci, published in the “Official Gazette of People’s Republic of Macedonia” on December 17 1954. The objective of the Hospital stated therein is as follows: “… to admit, accommodate and treat people from PRM suffering mental disorders…”. The tasks, defined according to another document of I.S. no. 341 are as follows: “… to do scientific and research work and to work on the promotion of preventive and therapeutic activity in elimination and treatment of nervous system and mental disorders and to assure performance of the scientific and research work with didactic objective for the needs of the Faculty of Medicine within the University in Skopje”.