National Institute of Health (Pakistan)

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National Institute of Health (NIH) is an agency of the Pakistan Ministry of Health and is the primary agency of the Pakistan government responsible for biomedical and health-related research.

NIH, located in Islamabad, is the only health institute in Pakistan, that prepares different kinds of vaccines, like polio, measles, meningitis, BCG etc.

The main sections of NIH are Drug Control, Polio Virul Lab, Nimkol Production Section, Animal house etc.

Branches within the Institute include Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), Hepatitis Prevention & Cure (Hep P & C), National AIDS Control Programme, Blindness Control Programme and Pakistan Nursing Council.

There is a college at the heart of NIH, College of Medical Lab Technology (CMLT) which trains highly qualified lab technicians all across Pakistan.