Adeebul Hasan Rizvi

Syed Adeebul Hasan Rizvi (also spelled: Adibul Hasan Rizvi) is a Pakistani philanthropist, Doctor, Renal transplant surgeon and founder of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), the largest kidney transplant centre in Pakistan.[2][3][4]

Adeebul Hasan Rizvi
Born (1938-09-11) September 11, 1938
Kalanpur, United Provinces, British India[1]
NationalityPakistani
OccupationPhysician and Surgeon

Early life and career

Rizvi was born on 11 September 1938 in a small village Kalanpur in Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh, British India. He graduated from Dow Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan in 1968. Thereafter he went to UK to pursue his postgraduate training. After finishing his studies there, he returned to Pakistan. "In those days most people returned from the UK with cars, but guess what, Dr. Rizvi returned with a container full of medical equipment."[1]

While living in UK, Rizvi was inspired by the National Health Service and decided to try that idea in Pakistan. Rizvi set up an eight-bed urology ward at the Civil Hospital, Karachi in 1970.[1]

SIUT started as an eight-bed ward at Civil Hospital, Karachi, and has grown to be Pakistan's leading & largest Urology and Transplantation Institute with branches (satellite centers) spreading from Kathore near Karachi to far North in Azad Kashmir .[5][6]

Rizvi is the president of the Transplant Society of Pakistan.[7] In 2003, Rizvi led a team of SIUT surgeons that performed the first successful liver transplant on an infant in Pakistan.[8]

In 2001, police arrested "a gang that was planning to murder" Rizvi.[9]

Awards and recognition

See also

References
  1. Profile of Adeebul Hasan Rizvi, spiritual-legacy.com website, Published 10 June 2013, Retrieved 19 June 2017
  2. Profile of Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi on BBC News website, Published 19 October 2014, Retrieved 19 June 2017
  3. "KARACHI: Experts back ban on organ 'donation' to foreigners". Dawn newspaper. 13 January 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  4. philanthropist
  5. "Prof Dr. Adeebul Hasan Rizvi". www.siut.org. Archived from the original on January 27, 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  6. Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi, a Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient in 1998, rmaward.asia website, Retrieved 19 June 2017
  7. Zardari donates all body organs, The News International newspaper, Published 18 March 2010, Retrieved 19 June 2017
  8. "Pakistan performs first successful liver transplant on an infant", abc.net.au website, Published 29 November 2003, Retrieved 19 June 2017
  9. Ahmad, K. (2002). "Pakistani doctors strike after ten doctors murdered this year". The Lancet. 359 (9314): 1322–1322. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)08332-0.
  10. Lifetime Achievement Award for Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi in 2015, Dawn newspaper, Published 28 January 2015, Retrieved 19 June 2017


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