S. M. Sohail Trust is named after a legal luminary of Karachi, who was an active participant in the freedom movement as President of provincial Muslim League and also President of Bihar Relief Fund. After 1947, he became Secretary of the Pakistan Bar Council, founding Managing Director of Karachi Co-operative Housing Union and Chairman Public Accounts Committee of West Pakistan Assembly. He was an ardent advocate of education and founded Sharfabad English School.

In 1997, the Trust established the School of Nursing at Medicare Hospital, which has consistently shown good results in board examinations. In 1998, the Trust established Jinnah Medical and Dental College, admitting its first batch of MBBS students. In 1999, the Dental Section was established and admitted its first batch of BDS students. In 2003, the Department of Pharmacy was established which offers Doctor of Pharmacy degrees.

The Trust has built a teaching hospital in the Korangi Industrial Area for low-income residents. This not-for-profit hospital is ideal for training of undergraduate and post-graduate students. The Out Patient Department of the hospital opened to the public in 2002 and inpatient services were available from April 2003.

The Trust has also acquired land in a katchi abadi in Landhi where a Primary Health Care (PHC) center will be constructed. Its location is ideal for a PHC unit from which out-reach services will spread out into the community. This will provide a firm basis for community health activities since Community Oriented Medical Education (COME) is an important part of the Trust's mission statement.

The Trust has offered an average of 50 scholarships each year to medical and dental students. These scholarships are given to meritorious, deserving candidates. The Trust also provides stipends, uniforms and tuition for all its nursing students.

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