About – Dr. Yahya Institute of Medical Sciences

━ About DYIMS

Built to train the workforce South Punjab always needed.

Dr. Yahya Institute of Medical Sciences was founded to open new, credible career pathways in healthcare for the students of South Punjab — pathways that didn’t exist locally before, and that now carry the backing of five national accrediting bodies.

━ 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.

━ Our Direction

Vision & Mission

━ Vision

Capable professionals, ready for the world.

DYIMS is structured to produce talented and capable health professionals who can work confidently in interdisciplinary teams and grow into leadership roles across hospital and community healthcare settings — in Layyah, across Pakistan, and internationally.

━ Mission

Skilled, principled, and competitive.

The mission of DYIMS is to educate students and shape them into skilled, principled professionals who can compete confidently with the world’s healthcare challenges.

━ Core Values

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."

━ Jim Rohn

01 Discipline

02 Excellence

03 Diversity

04 Compassion

05 Honesty

06 Respect

07 Integrity

08 Responsibility

━ Why DYIMS

Why students across the district choose us.

01

The largest institute of its kind in South Punjab — a 4-acre purpose-built campus with sports grounds and a dedicated female hostel, offering the region’s widest range of allied health, nursing, and pharmacy programs under one roof.

02

Five national approving and affiliating bodies — HED Punjab, GCUF, PMF, the Pharmacy Council of Pakistan, and PNMC — giving every program real, verifiable accreditation.

03

Our own teaching hospital — Qadir Ali Hospital, a 100-bed, Category 1 multi-specialty facility licensed under the Punjab Healthcare Commission, gives students real clinical exposure from early in their training, not just simulated practice.

04

Qualified, credentialed faculty — drawn from FCPS and MPhil-qualified professionals across medicine and allied health disciplines.

05

Purpose-built laboratories for every discipline taught — Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Biochemistry, Nutrition, Radiography & Imaging, Operation Theatre, and Kinesiology & Electrotherapy.

06

An affordable, transparent fee structure, with merit-based and need-based scholarships for deserving students.

━ Explore About DYIMS

Get to know us in more detail.

Meet the people who lead the institute, see exactly which national bodies approve our programs, and learn about the hospital and welfare society we work alongside.

━ Leadership

The team behind DYIMS

Messages from the Chairman, CEO, Project Director, and Principals — the people combining clinical practice, healthcare management, and medical education to run a growing institute.

━ Affiliations

Who approves our programs

The complete, current list of our approvals and registrations — HED Punjab, GCUF, PMF, the Pharmacy Council of Pakistan, and PNMC — with reference numbers and approved seat allocations.

━ Related Entities

Our hospital & welfare arm

Qadir Ali Hospital and DHQ Hospital provide our clinical training; the Dr. Yahya Professional Welfare Society puts our values into practice through free health camps and community outreach.

━ A Word on Layyah

Deep roots — and far too few pathways into healthcare.

DYIMS exists in a district with a long history of its own. Layyah is a district in southern Punjab, with the city of Layyah serving as its administrative headquarters. The town traces back to around 1550, founded by Kamal Khan, a Mirani Baloch leader descended from the founder of Dera Ghazi Khan, and has since passed through Sikh and British administration before being upgraded to a full district headquarters in 1982, comprising the tehsils of Layyah, Karor Lal Esan, and Chaubara.

Sitting between the Indus and Chenab rivers, Layyah has long been a center of agriculture and trade, known for its fertile land and resilient, hospitable people. It’s a region with deep roots — and, until DYIMS, with far too few formal pathways into healthcare careers for the young people who call it home. That gap is the reason DYIMS exists.

DYIMS doesn’t operate in isolation. The institute works alongside two organisations founded by the same family, each addressing a different part of the same mission.

Qadir Ali Hospital

DYIMS’s clinical training partner — a 100-bed, Category 1 multi-specialty hospital licensed under the Punjab Healthcare Commission that has served Layyah since 2008 and is recognised as the district’s largest private healthcare provider.

Dr. Yahya Professional Welfare Society (DYPWS)

The community welfare arm under which DYIMS is registered, running free health camps, awareness campaigns, and outreach across Layyah and surrounding villages.

━ Trusted & Approved By

━ Admissions Open

Admissions Open for 2026–27

Apply now across BS Degree, Diploma, and Certificate programs.