Buildings and facilities of Dow Medical College and Civil Hospital Karachi.
By Dr. Jamshed Bashir DMC Class of 1986 Starting with an old bland vignette reminiscing dissection of cadavers when we started in Dow Medical College. It is part of a series of essays I wrote about my time in the college. Like all new medical students we were excited to go to the ‘dissection hall’,Read More
THE YUM YUM TREE OF DOW MEDICAL COLLEGE. Yum Yum Tree, also called box fruit tree or heart tree is found mainly in the Southwestern Pacific region. One such tree existed in the campus of Dow Medical College Karachi. It was a beautiful tree, lush green the year round and gave shady to medical studentsRead More
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By Dr. Rizwan Karatela. \
DOW GRADUATES AT HERE AND ABROAD It has been said that a tree is judged by the fruit it bears similarly it can be rightly said that an institution is known by the graduates it produces. During the past twenty five years Dow Medical College was born, sustained, nourished and firmly established by a successionRead More
The famous yum yum tree! Elsewhere on this site there is a poem by Dr. Syed Khalid Anwer, Class of 1983. Regards Amin H. Karim MD
A PAGE FROM DOW HISTORY 1966: Talking about Foundation Stones and Dow Medical College, here is the foundation of Habib Bank Limited, Dow Medical College Branch in April 1966. The Principal at that time Prof. Mahmud Ali Shah is looking over. He was the Principal for 14 years till 1969 when Prof. Abdul Waheed tookRead More
Photos courtesy of Dr. Sohail Ansari
November 1945: The inauguration of the building of Dow Medical College, Karachi. Minister of Sindh Mr. Pir Ilahi Bux addressing the audience. Governor of SIndh Mr. Maudi (seated) inaugurated the Building. 45 students were later admitted to the first batch among them one Muslim girl named Ms. Fahmida Shaikh. Dow Medical College (now Dow UniversityRead More
By Raamish Karatela Dow Medical College is one the oldest Medical Colleges in Pakistan. It was established under British rule in 1945 under the leadership of Sir Hugh Dow (the then Governor of Sind) and his Minister of Public Health, Dr. Hermandas Wadhwant. It has since then served as one of the premier and prestigiousRead More
