The PGH being the National University Hospital is a tertiary care hospital serving complex cases referred from all over the country. Total annual in-patient admission as of 2015 was 45,092 patients, of which 4,286 (9.3 %) were primary neurologic/neurosurgical cases.  PGH serves primarily the poorer segments of society, with 58% of the inpatient admissions from the charity Service; the proportion of charity patients is 55.2%, 26.6 % and 18.2% from the Sections of Adult Neurology, Neurosurgery and Pediatric Neurology, respectively.

The top in-patient diagnoses are Stroke, Intracranial tumors, CNS infection, Epilepsy, Congenital Malformations and Traumatic head injury. The section of Neurosurgery performs 1012 operations/year.  The most common neurosurgical operation is ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion, followed by intracranial tumor excision and aneurysm surgery.  The most common diagnosis at the Outpatient Department is Epilepsy for both the Adult and Pediatric Neurology Section comprising 40.92% and 76.6% of the patient visits, respectively, translating to a total of 5028 patient visits.  This is followed by stroke and intracranial tumors.  The department also sees a total of 2,589 in-patient referrals yearly from other departments.