"Khawaja Muhammad Safdar Medical College, Sialkot"
Allama Iqbal Memorial Hospital, Commissioner Road, Sialkot,
Sialkot
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Khawaja Muhammad Safdar Medical College is a medical college in Sialkot, Pakistan. It was established in 2002 with a sanction of PKR 450 million. 30 seats allocated for the year 2003 in the Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore, which were shifted to the Sialkot Medical College in 2004. However because of local politics, the project was shelved. In April 2007, the President of Pakistan again announced the immediate construction of a Medical College, but the project is still in the pipeline. A temporary project office has been established at Allama Iqbal Memorial Hospital Sialkot which will also be the attached teaching hospital. In 2010, the student enrollment has been increased to 100 students per year for MBBS.
The Government of the Punjab has advertised tenders for construction of regular academic block and hostel building. The Khawaja Muhammad Safdar Medical College will be attached to the 400 bedded Allama Iqbal Memorial DHQ Hospital Sialkot and 135 bedded Sardar Begum Memorial Hospital, Sialkot. In these hospitals, major specialties including Medical, Surgical, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Eye, ENT, Gynecology, Urology, Orthopedics,Neurosurgery etc, are available. The teaching in first year will be started in the existing building of the Public Health Nursing School and the School of Paramedics and will be shifted to its own campus as soon as the civil work on the regular building for basic sciences is completed...
