Sindh Medical College, Karachi started functioning 7th April,
1973 after final decision of the committee constituted by the Government
of Sindh and after sanction budget in 1st week f March 1973.
First batch of about 200 Student was admitted to 1st year MBBS
class in the College for the 1972-73 session, with Late Professor Dr.
Khawaja Moin Ahmed as its Project Director and 1st Principal.
In the begning the College, started in the building of Peadiatrics ward of
Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre Karachi, which was actually on army
barrack constructed in the year 1865, and was later on handed over the
Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in 1959. In the begning there were
three Departments i.e. Anatomy including Histology, Physiology and
Biochemistry. Later on new academic block was constructed having
Department of Pathology, Pharmacology, Forensic Medicine and Community
Medicine with all the latest Audio Visual Teaching facilities Laboratories
and Museums beside having Administrative Offices also.
A Boys Hostel has been provided near the College and a
building for the Girls Hostel has been purchased in P.E.C.H.S. Society
since the commencement of the College in 1973.
Since its existence in 1973,23 Batches have graduated
from this College till 1998-99.This College does not have attached
Teaching Hospital like the other public Medical College of Province, the
students receive their Clinical Training in three most prestigious
organizations of this country i.e. Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre,
National Institute of Child Health and National Institute of
Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi.
