LAHORE: In a surprise move, the Jinnah Institute of Cardiology has been renamed as the Maryam Nawaz Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases.

Punjab Health Minister Khwaja Salman Rafique told a private news channel on Monday that “renaming reflects the hospital’s new identity as a separate, independent entity, no longer functioning as an expansion project of the Jinnah Hospital Lahore”.

He said the Maryam Nawaz Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases had been made autonomous and would not be under the administrative control of Jinnah Hospital.

The plan for this new institute (Jinnah Institute of Cardiology) was announced by the then chief minister Mohsin Naqvi in October 2023 in the building adjacent to Jinnah Hospital.

Published in Dawn, July 1st, 2025