Institute of Asian Medical Sciences Zakura Srinagar. The IAMS stand established in the Year 1993 with the sole purpose to serve the society by way of imparting medical Education (Unani) to the Students who used to proceed outside the state in order to acquire such education at heavy cost. The Institute has been successfully in this mission so far.
That the college stands established in the year 1993 with the permission of state Govt./CCIUM/Affiliating University of Kashmir for running the BUMS course, building located at Boulevard Dalgate Sgr.
In 1997 we shifted the college and Hospital to its new own camps at Zakura. The campus is developed on a big plot of land.
The campus is having total four Buildings:
- One Big building of Hospital
- One Big building of College
- OPD Block
- Canteen building and pharmacy.
College Building is having 7 big class rooms, laboratories, Library and reading room, Audio-visual department, Museums of Adviya, Anatomy, SPM & forensic Medicine and Departmental rooms of 14 departments fully furnished and equipped with computer with internet facilities etc.
Class rooms are fully furnished and equipped best comfortable furniture for Students with all facilities Laboratories are well equipped with all faculties for students.
There are 3 laboratories:
- Fully equipped pathology lab
- Fully equipped physiology lab
- Anatomy Museum with Dissection Hall
(Having all the facilities for prescription of cadavers and equipment for dissection of dead bodies having many dead bodies.
Anatomy museum have many models of full body and half body and other organs. Many articulates and disarticulated skeletons and clears etc.
- Museum and fully equipped lab for Adviya and Unani pharmacy in which many compounds are prepared to demonstration the students and also for free distribution in Hospital to patients.
- Pharamacognocy Lab
- SPM, Museum with forensic museum and fully equipped labs.
College has a big laboratory more than 11000 books of Unani medicine and others.
The reading room has capacity for 60 seats students to sit in.
The audio-visual department has all the faculties of LCD, video VCR TV slide projects and overhead projection. The students are taught by means of CDs and DVDs and video castes the all aspects Anatomy, Physiology, Medicine, Surgery and Gynae and Obst.
The college has a very good computer lab having more than 15 computers with internet facilities
Hospital:
The hospital is fully equipped with modern several as facilities of Unani treatment having 6 fully equipped OPDs it is having about 80 beds. The Hospital having two general wards post-operative, pre-operative wards, Gyne and peadi wards and many special rooms
There are two operation theatres equipped for all kinds of general, osltopadic, Gyne & obs and Ent Surgeries.
There is a very well-equipped labs maternity department having all the facilities for normal and other deliverers and well equipped labor room.
Other faculties present in the Hospital are:
- Equipped clinical pathology labs with automate Analysis
- X-ray department
- Ultrasonography department
- ECG and other facilities
Above all hospital has a very well-equipped department of ilaj bit Tadbeer i.e regimental therapy in which many patients are treated with cupping (Hijam) leaching, fermentation Dalak Nature etc.
The Hospital has facility of Ambulance and an emergency (casually) department which is open 24 hours.
The Institute have a big Herbal garden on about 250 sq meters of land which is having more then 250 species of rear and precious medicinal plants.
The Institute also has transport facilities for students two new buses
The college has produced up this time total 13 batches of Unani Doctors and still 5 batches are under training. we are having all the education and training faculties and atmosphere in out Institute. The prof of which is that this in the examine all the classes have scrolled position in the result.
The teaching staff is well qualified and up to mark we have 31 professional doctors as faculty members and 2 faculty member one to teach communication skills and 2nd to teach Arabic mantiq wa falsafa in additional education system supported by 8 modern specialist doctors (part time) other staff is as per requirement stander set by the of CCIM Ministry of Health ( AYUSH) Govt. Of India.
The Institute has its own website which is updated time to time.