Pakistan is exploring the application of artificial general intelligence, AI that possesses human-like intelligence to perform intellectual tasks, in diagnostics and nursing training.
The Pakistan Nursing and Midwifery Council (PNMC), which licenses nurses, midwives, lady health visitors, and nursing auxiliaries in the country, has started collaborating with California-based AI company MindHYVE.ai to address challenges in nursing education.
The regulatory council estimates a national demand for skilled nurses and midwives of over 3.1 million. Currently, Pakistan's nursing workforce is at 172,000.
Considering that it would take more than 90 years to close this gap without intervention, PNMC has been seeking solutions to accelerate nurses' training. It is now in the process of identifying pilot sites for testing MindHYVE.ai's autonomous AI education assistant following a recent demonstration.
The AI tool, as MindHYVE described, tailors training for each learner based on a neuro-psychological assessment and continuously adapts to their learning progress.
Meanwhile, MindHYVE.ai has also signed a memorandum of understanding with Islamabad Diagnostic Centre (IDC) to implement two AGI-driven systems across its network of more than 140 private centres.
These are a medical diagnostic reasoner that performs pre-diagnostic inference and near real-time anomaly detection across laboratory datasets and a semi-autonomous narrative generation agent that synthesises structured reports following the International Classification of Diseases and Health Level Seven standards.
These models, which integrate into PACS and LIS, are guided by an AI framework that enables them to self-organise, optimise priorities, and conduct contextual reasoning across patient records.
The AGI systems will be rolled out across IDC's network in three phases: an initial deployment, a second stage involving AI refinement and clinical data harmonisation, and finally, regulatory compliance licensing with the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP).
An ethical AI protocol will also govern the use of these AGI tools; this includes explainable diagnostic decisions via a reasoner model, human validation, encrypted data pathways, and collaborative oversight with government regulators, including the DRAP and the Pakistan National Accreditation Council.
THE LARGER CONTEXT
In late April, MindHYVE.ai committed $22 million in foreign direct investment in Pakistan to launch a national AI-driven digital transformation program.
"This isn't outsourcing—this is digital nation-building… we're bringing our most advanced agentic, autonomous systems, large reasoning models, and AI know-how and co-creating sovereign AI solutions with Pakistan," said founder and CEO Belal Faruki.
