Sahara Medical College

Sahara Medical College is a private medical college on Muridke Road in Narowal, Punjab. The college teaches the MBBS program, which runs for five years. ¹

The University of Health Sciences Lahore runs the private admission round for Punjab. ⁵ Applicants register on the UHS private admission portal and name the college in their preference list. ⁵ A domicile certificate from any district of Pakistan satisfies the domicile rule for private colleges. ⁵ For the 2025-26 round, UHS opened applications on 7 November 2025 and closed them on 21 November 2025. ⁵

SAHARA for Life Trust owns the college, and Abrar-ul-Haq chairs the trust. ¹ Israr-ul-Haq serves as executive director of the trust. ¹ The trust runs the college with the attached hospital as one charitable project. ¹

PMDC recognises the college. ¹ Wikipedia records it in the World Directory of Medical Schools. ⁴ Sughra Shafi Medical Complex in Narowal is the attached teaching hospital. ¹⁴

The college opened at Narowal in 2015. ⁴ Abrar-ul-Haq, a singer and philanthropist, founded it under SAHARA for Life Trust. The trust appointed Israr-ul-Haq as executive director. ¹ The UHS private-sector notice lists the college as one of the private medical colleges of Punjab for 2025-26. ⁵

The trust runs the college and the hospital as one project. ¹ The complex gives free treatment to patients who cannot pay. ¹ The college records more than three million patients treated free of charge. ¹ Sughra Shafi Medical Complex carries this service beside the college. ¹

Sughra Shafi Medical Complex in Narowal gives the clinical training for the MBBS program. ¹⁴ The college site records 650 beds at the complex, and Wikipedia records 600 beds. ¹⁴ The complex serves the rural districts around Narowal. ⁴

The teaching staff covers basic sciences and clinical sciences. The recorded departments include anatomy, pathology, physiology, forensic medicine, biochemistry and pharmacology. ¹³ Clinical departments cover anaesthesia, cardiology, ENT and dermatology. ¹ Further departments cover gastroenterology, medicine, and obstetrics and gynaecology. ¹

The remaining clinical departments cover oncology, ophthalmology, paediatric surgery, paediatrics, psychiatry, radiology, surgery, orthopaedics, urology and nephrology. ¹ The MBBS program runs for five years. Students meet patients in these departments during the clinical years.

The campus grew on Muridke Road beside the hospital. ² It holds a library, a digital library, computer laboratories, an auditorium, multimedia halls and a mosque. ¹ Courts and indoor games areas serve the students on the campus. ¹ A written hostel policy covers the resident students. ¹

For the 2025-26 session, UHS opened online applications on 7 November 2025 and closed them on 21 November 2025. ⁵ Classes began on 2 February 2026 for the MBBS program. ⁵ The provisional merit list for the round came on 10 December 2025. ⁵

The college records two MBBS merit points. The closing aggregate was 81.8% in 2024 and 84.9% in 2025, both on self-finance seats. The 2025 figure sits 3.1 percentage points above the 2024 figure.

UHS builds every aggregate from three parts: 10% SSC, 40% HSSC and 50% MDCAT. ⁵⁶ UHS adds the three weighted parts to place candidates in order of merit. ⁵ SSC stands for the matriculation examination, HSSC for the intermediate examination and MDCAT for the entry test.

Compare sessions with care. The MDCAT paper carried 210 marks, then 200 marks, then 180 marks across recent years. ⁶ One percentage point does not mean the same raw score in every row. The 2025-26 round kept the same three parts. ⁵

Sughra Shafi Medical Complex in Narowal is the attached teaching hospital. ¹⁴ The college site records 650 beds, and Wikipedia records 600 beds. ¹⁴ The hospital and the college form one complex on Muridke Road. ¹² The contact page gives the address on Muridke Road. ²

The trust runs the complex as a charitable hospital. ¹ The complex gives free treatment to patients who cannot pay. ¹ The college records more than three million patients treated free of charge. ¹

Clinical training runs through medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics. ¹ Students also train in cardiology, oncology, ophthalmology and ENT. ¹ Dermatology, psychiatry, radiology, orthopaedics, urology and nephrology carry further rotation places. ¹ Students rotate through these departments in the clinical years. ¹

Anaesthesia and gastroenterology also work at the complex. ¹ Students meet patients on the wards and in the outpatient department under supervision. The Advanced Oncology Unit runs on the campus as a specialty service. Students work in these units under the supervision of the consultants. ¹

The campus sits on Muridke Road in Narowal, beside Sughra Shafi Medical Complex. ¹² The college, the hospital and the hostel stand on one site, so students reach the wards in a short walk. ¹

Facilities on the college site include a library, a digital library, computer laboratories, multimedia halls, an auditorium, a cafeteria and a mosque. ¹ The campus also holds courts and indoor games areas for the students. ¹ The multimedia halls hold classes, seminars and events for the students. ¹

A written hostel policy covers the resident students. ¹ Students use the digital library and the computer laboratories for study outside class hours. ¹

The student hostels stand on the campus, and the trust campus keeps the college beside the hospital. ¹ The whole site lies on Muridke Road in Narowal. ² The hostel stands beside the academic blocks on the site. ¹

PMDC recognises the college. ¹⁴ Wikipedia records the same recognition for the MBBS program. ⁴ PMDC recognition covers the five-year MBBS degree at the college. ¹⁴

The degree appears in the World Directory of Medical Schools. ⁴ The directory record also lists ECFMG eligibility and CPSP accreditation for the college.

The UHS private-sector notice lists the college among the private medical colleges of Punjab for the 2025-26 session. ⁵ The notice sets the same eligibility rules for every private medical college in the round. ⁵⁶ The prospectus lists the college among the private medical colleges for the session. ⁶

Resident students follow the college hostel policy. ¹ The campus holds a cafeteria, an auditorium, courts and indoor games areas for free time. ¹ The college publishes a written hostel policy for the resident students. ¹ The auditorium gives indoor space for college functions. ¹

Prayer space works inside the campus mosque. ¹ Computer laboratories and the digital library stay open for study outside class hours. ¹ The students use the mosque between the classes. ¹ The cafeteria serves meals on the campus. ¹

The college sits on Muridke Road in Narowal, away from the Lahore hostel and campus pressure. ² Narowal lies in rural Punjab, and the campus keeps a small student community. ⁴ The hostel stands on the same site as the college. ¹