Chandka Medical College Larkana

HISTORY OF CHANDKA MEDICAL COLLEGE LARKANA
Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto initiated a project to found four different medical colleges in Sindh province; Chandka Medical College was among one. It is located in a building that had formerly housed a Government Polytechnic Institute Larkano, and Professor Ali Mohammad Ansari was assigned as the first Principal of the College. CMC admitted its first batch of 150 students in 1973. In 1975, as the first batch of students were passing their first certification examination, the school instituted new departments in Pathology and Pharmacology.
CMC has since grown to a full-fledged Medical University. The new name of CMC is now "Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University" after the name of slain Benazir Bhutto who remained twice the Prime Minister of Pakistan . Prof. Surgeon Dr. Sikandar Ali Sheikh became his first Vice chancellor on 9 July 2009.