The People’s University of Medical and Health Sciences for Women (PUMHSW) ( sd, پيپلز يونيورسٽي آف ميڊيڪل اينڊ هيلٿ سائنسز فار وومين) is a public

medical university A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, M ...

located in

Shaheed Benazirabad District Shaheed Benazirabad District ( sd, شهيد بينظيرآباد ضلعو, ur, ) previously known as Nawabshah District, is one of the districts in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Renaming The district was renamed in September 2008 when mos ...

(

Nawabshah Nawabshah ( sd, نوابشاھ, ur, ) is a tehsil and headquarters of the Shaheed Benazirabad District of Sindh province, Pakistan. This city is situated in the middle of Sindh province. It is the 27th largest city in Pakistan. Nawabshah Teh ...

), Sindh,

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. It is the first women’s medical university in Sindh. The University is affiliated with People’s Medical University Hospital (formerly referred to as People’s Medical College Hospital or Civil Hospital, Nawabshah) and NORIN Cancer Hospital.

Academics

Apart from MBBS offered by the University, undergraduate programs like

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, BS Public Health are offered. Postgraduate courses in medicine,

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, and

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are also being offered since 2004. As a result, it received recognition from British Medical Association,

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and other international bodies.

Research

JPUMHS is the official research journal of the University which was started in 2011. It is a quarterly published, multi-disciplinary and peer-reviewed journal.

History

As a result of dire need of women to pursue higher education, a medical college in

, People’s Medical College, was established exclusively for women in 1974 by

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Zulfikar (or Zulfiqar) Ali Bhutto ( ur, , sd, ذوالفقار علي ڀٽو; 5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979), also known as Quaid-e-Awam ("the People's Leader"), was a Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman who served as the fourth ...

, making it the first women’s medical college in the province. The college offered undergraduate medical course (MBBS) in its initial years and was affiliated with

University of Sindh The University of Sindh ( ur, ; sd, سنڌ يونيورسٽي; informally known as Sindh University) is a public research university in Pakistan located in the city of Jamshoro. It is one of the oldest universities in Pakistan and was certifi ...

. It got affiliated with People’s Medical College Hospital in 1983. The medical college was initially located in the District Council (DC) High School (the oldest government high school in the city), consisting of an auditorium and a couple of hostels along with the main building of Muslim Boarding House. In 2004, postgraduate courses were introduced. A proposal of Health Department of Sindh to introduce co-education in the college was vehemently opposed by the Academic Council of the college in 2005. The name of the college was suddenly changed to Nawabshah Medical College by the provincial government in 2006, leading to uproar as its name was easily confused with

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. In 2009, Sindh government upgraded the status of the medical college to a university through an act, and it was subsequently renamed as People’s University of Medical and Health Sciences for Women. The University was made the centralized Admitting University of the province by the provincial committee for admission to medicine and dentistry in 2020.

External links

PUMHS official website
Larkana District Public universities and colleges in Sindh Women's universities and colleges in Pakistan

References

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