Our Story

Our Story

The story of a gap no one else was filling.

How a district’s shortage of trained healthcare professionals became South Punjab’s largest allied health, nursing, and pharmacy institute.

Our Story

A response to a gap no one else was filling.

Dr. Yahya Institute of Medical Sciences was founded in Layyah by Dr. Muhammad Yahya, a general and laparoscopic surgeon. South Punjab had the hospitals — but not the trained allied health professionals, nurses, and pharmacy staff to run them. DYIMS was built to close that gap: under one roof, with full national accreditation behind every program.

The DYIMS campus in Layyah — purpose-built for clinical and technical education, opened December 2021.

By the numbers

2019

Foundation stone laid — the build pushed on through the pandemic.

2021

Doors opened in December 
— first batch enrolled January 2022.

5

National accrediting bodies standing behind every program.

#1

Largest institute of its kind in South Punjab — highest approved seat allocations.

Milestones

From an eight-bed hospital to a regional institute.

2008

Qadir Ali Hospital begins

Founded as an eight-bed facility to bring general surgery services to a part of South Punjab that had few good options at the time.

2019

Foundation stone laid

Professor Zafar Ali Chaudhry, VC of Faisalabad Medical University and Dr. Muhammad Yahya’s surgical mentor, lays the foundation stone for DYIMS in Layyah.

2020

The Sehat Sahulat catalyst

Universal health coverage expands across all 36 districts of Punjab, exposing the district’s acute shortage of trained allied health, nursing, and pharmacy staff.

2021

DYIMS opens its doors

Built through the Covid-19 pandemic under considerable difficulty, the institute formally opens in December 2021.

2022

First batch enrolled

The first cohort of Allied Health Sciences students begins classes in January 2022.

Today

The largest of its kind in South Punjab

19 degree, diploma, and certificate programs across five schools and colleges — every one nationally accredited.

The Result

A purpose-built home for healthcare education.

Today DYIMS stands on a 4-acre, purpose-built campus on the Layyah–Chowk Azam Road — designed from the ground up for clinical and technical education, not adapted from a generic college building. It exists for one reason: to open credible healthcare careers for the young people of South Punjab, at home.
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