Liaquat University of Medical Health Sciences

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Liaquat University of Medical Health Sciences is a degree awarding institution in Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan. Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences, the first public sector medical university in Sindh, has a long history of imparting medical education in the province. It started as a medical school in the present Civil Hospital, Hyderabad in 1881, the first seat of Medical learning in the province of Sindh. The school was upgraded to the status of Medical College, the Sindh Medical College, which was formally inaugurated by the then Governor of Sindh in 1945. The College was shifted to Karachi at the end of same year and was renamed as Dow Medical College. The Sindh Government subsequently started another College in the premises of same Civil Hospital and Hyderabad in 1951, which acquired its name, Liaquat Medical College after the first Prime Minister of Pakistan Quaid-e-Millat Liaquat Ali Khan.