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) kidney transplant centre in Pakistan.[2][3][4]
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Born | Kalanpur, United Provinces, British India[1] | September 11, 1938
Nationality | Pakistani |
Occupation | Physician 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. Then he went to UK to pursue higher studies. After finishing his studies there, he returned to Pakistan. "In those days most people returned from UK with cars but guess what Dr. Rizvi returned with a container full of medical equipment."[1]
While living in UK, Rizvi saw National Health Service working there and he 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
- Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1998[6]
- Lifetime Achievement Award by The Sindh Association of North America in 2015[10]
References
- Profile of Adeebul Hasan Rizvi, spiritual-legacy.com website, Published 10 June 2013, Retrieved 19 June 2017
- Profile of Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi on BBC News website, Published 19 October 2014, Retrieved 19 June 2017
- "KARACHI: Experts back ban on organ 'donation' to foreigners". Dawn newspaper. 13 January 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- philanthropist
- "Prof Dr. Adeebul Hasan Rizvi". www.siut.org. Archived from the original on January 27, 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi, a Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient in 1998, rmaward.asia website, Retrieved 19 June 2017
- Zardari donates all body organs, The News International newspaper, Published 18 March 2010, Retrieved 19 June 2017
- "Pakistan performs first successful liver transplant on an infant", abc.net.au website, Published 29 November 2003, Retrieved 19 June 2017
- 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.
- Lifetime Achievement Award for Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi in 2015, Dawn newspaper, Published 28 January 2015, Retrieved 19 June 2017