It was a project for the establishment of a specialised, tertiary care centre for patients with cardiovascular diseases.

In early 2003, Pervaiz Elahi, the Chief Minister of Punjab, prioritised this initiative, evident by his appointment of Col. (Ret) Prof M A Cheema as the Project Director of MIC.

He has been a pioneer in cardiac surgery within Pakistan and had previously established the Punjab Institute of Cardiology, in Lahore.

The Institute also has facilities of Cardiac CT-scan, Nuclear Cardiology, Exercise Tolerance Testing and Echocardiography.

The cardiology department provides diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients with heart diseases.

CSSD is one of the systems installed in Pakistan and ensures sterilized surgical instruments and linen used in the operation theatres and the catheterization laboratories.

According to the policy of the Government of Punjab, the hospital pharmacy provides the supply of free medicines to the poor patients.

The department of cardiac surgery has a state of the art electronic database donated by Dr. Anjum Jalal, one of the developers of the software.

The role of the database has been recognized and appreciated by both the local and international community of cardiac surgeons.

[2] Multan institute of cardiology is primarily serving the poor people living in the region of south Punjab.

However, due to its convenient geographic location many patients from upper Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa also visit for treatment of heart diseases.

A large number of adult congenital operations have been performed by the team of cardiac surgeons with exceptional results.

Surgical correction of extremely rare conditions (like aorto-ventricular tunnel and ruptured sinus of Valsalva) have also been performed with excellent outcomes.

As a result of the tireless efforts of its faculty, the institute was accredited by the College of Physicians & Surgeons soon after its establishment.

Some of the publications done by the doctors of MIC include the following: The institute also publishes a monthly news letter under the editorship of Dr. Kashif Hashmi.