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S.M.Sohail Trust is named after a legal luminary of Karachi, who was an active
participant in the freedom movement as President of Provincial Muslim League and
also president of Bihar Relief Fund. After 1947, he became Secretary of the
Pakistan Bar Council, founding Managing Director of Karachi Co-operative Housing
Union and Chairman Public Accounts Committee of West Pakistan Assembly. He was
an ardent advocate of education and founded Sharfabad English School. His son
Professor Dr Syed Tariq Sohail, an eminent Psychiatrist, Educationist and Civil
Society Activist, inherited Mr. S. M. Sohail’s passion for educating masses. Dr
Syed Tariq Sohail established the S M Sohail Trust in 1996, which owns Jinnah
Medical and Dental College and the attached teaching hospitals, Jinnah Medical
College Hospital, Medicare Dental Hospital, Medicare Heart Hospital.
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MEDICARE SCHOOL OF NURSING
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In 1997, the Trust established the School of Nursing at Medicare Hospital, which
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JINNAH MEDICAL & DENTAL COLLEGE
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In 1998, the Trust established Jinnah Medical College, admitting its first batch
of MBBS students. In 1999, College of Dentistry was opened and admitted its
first bath of BDS students.
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MEDICARE DENTAL HOSPITAL
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The Trust established Medicare Dental Hospital in 1999.
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JINNAH MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL
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The Trust built a teaching Hospital in the Korangi Industrial Area for
low-income residents. This not-for-profit hospital is ideal for training of
undergraduate and postgraduate students. The Outpatient Department of the
hospital opened to the public in 2002. Inpatient services were available from
April 2003.
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PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER
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In 2004, the Trust has established a Primary Health Care Center in a katchi
abadi in Landhi for out reach services to a disadvantaged community lacking
access to good quality health services. This provides a firm basis for community
health services, as community oriented medical education (COME) is an important
part of the Mission Statement.
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JINNAH COLLEGE OF NURSING
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The Trust established Jinnah College of Nursing in 2009.
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MEDICARE HEART HOSPITAL
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In 2014, a state of the art teaching Hospital opened at the Shaheed-e-Millat
Campus. Hospital has 150 beds providing the entire range of cardiac and vascular
services including 24 hour Emergency, Angiography, Angioplasty and Cardiac
Surgery with ICU and CCU available . This provides a new dimension for teaching
undergraduate and postgraduate students as they have the privilege of being
exposed to a modern, high- tech hospital in the heart of the city.
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