Doctor Adeebul Hasan Rizvi is head of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation

Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation

The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation is a dialysis & kidney transplant centre located in Pakistan.SIUT was founded by Dr. Adeebul Hasan Rizvi and it is Pakistan's largest kidney disease center, as well as Parkistan's largest public sector health organisation...

 (SIUT). SIUT started as an eight bed ward at Civil Hospital

Civil Hospital

Civil Hospital Karachi is a 1900-bed tertiary care public hospital that imparts both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training. It is one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with the Dow Medical College now the Dow University of Health Sciences...

, Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

, and has grown to be Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

's leading & largest Urology and Transplantation Institute.

Rizvi is the president of the Transplant Society of Pakistan. In 2003, Rizvi led a team of SIUT surgeons that performed the first successful liver transplant on an infant in Pakistan.

In 2001, police arrested "a gang that 'was planning to murder'" Rizvi.

External links

• Official Website of SIUT