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SINDH MEDICAL COLLEGE, KARACHI. (SMC)
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.
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