D.G. Khan Medical College

D.G. Khan Medical College sits on Jam Pur Road in Dera Ghazi Khan ¹. It is a public medical college in the UHS system ¹. Our dataset records 120 MBBS seats, a fee of PKR 32,000 and the founding year 2010. Wikipedia carries an article on Dera Ghazi Khan, the city of the college ⁶.

The college was established in 2010, and its classes started at Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur ². The classes moved to D.G. Khan in March 2012 ². The Government of the Punjab allocated 522 kanals for the academic block, hostels and hospital expansion ².

Students train at the attached teaching hospital ¹. Our dataset records 800 beds. The UHS prospectus records 909 beds in its sidebar profile ¹.

The college calls its students Ghazians ². It runs an Institute of Allied Health Sciences and a College of Nursing ².

The college was established in 2010 ². Its first classes ran at Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur, and moved to D.G. Khan in March 2012 ². The Government of the Punjab allocated 522 kanals for the academic block, hostels and expansion of the attached hospital ². Our dataset records 2010 as the founding year.

The UHS prospectus sidebar records 28 November 2011 as the establishment date ¹. It records 28 acres of campus area and an academic staff of 170 ¹. It records 660 enrolled students ¹.

The attached hospital started as a 346-bed DHQ Hospital ². The expansion plan of the Government of the Punjab grew it further ². The UHS prospectus records the hospital as DHQ Teaching Hospital with 909 beds ¹. The prospectus also states that the hospital was renamed Allama Iqbal Teaching Hospital ¹.

The hospital lists many specialties for clinical training ². They include Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics and Gynaecology ². Eye, ENT, Cardiology and Psychiatry join them ². Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Orthopaedics and Urology complete the list ².

The Institute of Allied Health Sciences started in 2020 as part of the college and hospital ². It offers four-year BSc programmes in Medical Imaging Technology, Medical Laboratory Technology and Operation Theatre Technology ². The College of Nursing offers a four-year BSc Nursing degree ².

The General Nursing and Midwifery School started in 2016 with an annual intake of 25 students ². The Punjab health department upgraded it to the College of Nursing in 2020 ².

Our dataset records four open-merit MBBS aggregates at this college. The closing aggregate moved from 85.05% in 2022 to 86.2% in 2023, then to 89% in 2024 and 93.5303% in 2025.

UHS sets the aggregate with three components: 50% MDCAT, 40% HSSC and 10% SSC ¹. Compare sessions with care. The MDCAT mark scale moved from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across recent sessions. The same percentage does not mean the same raw score in every row.

Our dataset records 120 MBBS seats with a fee of PKR 32,000. The PMDC public register lists 150 seats for the session we checked ⁴. You need 60% in HSSC Pre-Medical and 55% in MDCAT for MBBS ¹.

The attached hospital sits in Dera Ghazi Khan ². It started as a 346-bed DHQ Hospital and grew with state support ². The UHS prospectus records it as DHQ Teaching Hospital with 909 beds ¹. Our dataset records 800 beds.

The prospectus states that the hospital was renamed Allama Iqbal Teaching Hospital ¹. Our dataset names DHQ Teaching Hospital in one field and Allama Iqbal Teaching Hospital in another. Students train at the same hospital under both names ¹².

The hospital lists many specialties for clinical training ². They include Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics and Gynaecology ². Eye, ENT, Cardiology and Psychiatry join them ². Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Urology, Paediatric Surgery and Gastroenterology complete the list ².

The campus sits on Jam Pur Road in Dera Ghazi Khan ¹. The Government of the Punjab allocated 522 kanals for the academic block, hostels and hospital expansion ². The UHS prospectus sidebar records 28 acres of campus area ¹. The facilities recorded in our dataset include the teaching hospital, central lecture theatres, the digital medical library, on-campus hostels and a sports ground.

The college keeps hostels for female and male students ¹. A canteen and transport support run on campus ¹. The website lists a HEC digital library among its facilities ³.

The Institute of Allied Health Sciences and the College of Nursing share the campus with the medical college ². The website lists basic science and clinical departments for teaching ³.

The PMDC public medical register lists the college with 150 seats for the session we checked, while our dataset records 120 ⁴. Our dataset records PMDC recognition for the MBBS programme.

The UHS prospectus lists the college among the government medical colleges of Punjab ¹. UHS publishes the public MBBS admission page with college-wise selection lists ⁵.

Students call themselves Ghazians ². The college annual magazine carries the name Loh-e-Ghazi ¹. Student societies include the Sports Club, the Jinnah Debating Society and The Ghazian Society ¹.

The Ghazians Blood Donor Society and the Ghazians Students Welfare Society run on campus ¹. The Khwabeeda Arts Society and the Shauur Urdu Literary Society join them ¹.

Hostels for female and male students sit on campus ¹. Sports, transport and canteen facilities run for students ¹. The prospectus sidebar records 800 alumni ¹.