IT is gratifying to note that Karachi Medical & Dental College is functioning smoothly well since its inception. This is the first Medical College of its kind in Pakistan and third in the sub-continent ever established and managed by the Metropolitan Corporation (defunct) now by the "Karachi Government.

It is indeed a pleasure to see that teaching departments, which were temporarily working at old campus F.B. Area, have shifted and started functioning in its permanent site at Block "M" North Nazimabad, Karachi. After the completion of second phase of the building.

The Governing Body of Karachi Medical & Dental College formulates the Admission policy of the college. The students are selected purely on the basis of merit and there is no self-financing scheme. At present, the college is admitting 50 students for MBBS and 25 students for BDS programmes.

Institution is persistently maintaining the excellence education in the form of good results. All the teachers have been very successful in imparting knowledge and training to the young future doctors. The clinical teaching is imparted at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital at Nazimabad.

I welcome the students who are entering the undergraduate programme session 2004-2005 and hope that they will put in their best at achieving their goals in life and be of service to the humanity as is expected.

SYED MUSTAFA KAMAL
Nazim, City District Govt, Karachi & Chairman Governing Body
Karachi Medical & Dental College.