Unit Name: | PNS Shifa |
Country: | Pakistan |
Type: | Military hospital |
Size: | 886 Bedded Hospital in 2023 |
Garrison: | Clifton, Sindh, Pakistan |
Nickname: | SHIFA |
The Pakistan Navy Station Shifa (reporting name:PNS Shifa) is a military hospital located in the Clifton Cantonment in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.[1]
The Pakistan Navy identify the PNS Shifa its premium medical training facility and distinguished as "Pakistan Navy Medical Training School."[2]
The Pakistan Navy Medical Training School (reporting name: MTS) is a direct reporting detachment and the military medical school that was established with the crucial help from the British Royal Navy's Medical Service in 1953. Since then, the PNS Shifa has been a military medical training institution and has been repurposed several times with Navy's intend to build the facility as a medical school for the Navy. In 1970, it was known as Medical Assistant Training School and, later, as "Pakistan Navy Nursing School" in 1982.
In 2006, it was renamed to its current name and began providing teachings and instructions to the postgraduate medical students when the facility was expanded from 600-beds to 800-beds..[3] [4]
The Pakistan Navy Medical Training School is an accredited medical school by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan and the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council which certifies the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree programs.[5] Unlike its sister college, Army Medical College in Rawalpindi, the Navy Medical School's admission and enrollment is restricted to the military personnel.