Nursing is a very important wing of healthcare delivery system. Nurses contribute as much as, if not more as the doctors, to the healthcare system.

The factual situation is that there is acute shortage of nurses in Pakistan in general and in the province of Sindh in particular.

The nursing profession has become highly specialized in present era and the nurses have to work with the most modern medical technologies to bring relief to the suffering of the human beings.

Keeping above facts under consideration, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Medical Sciences at Isra University, Hyderabad, has started School of Nursing as its constituent nursing training institute. Isra School of Nursing is established by approval of Pakistan Nursing Council vide their letter number F-134- Admin/2002-1484 dated August 27, 2002.

Initially Pupil Midwifery course was started exclusively for girls. Diploma in General Nursing is planned to be launched from year 2003, followed by B.Sc Nursing Degree Program.