Syed Adeebul Hasan Rizvi (also spelled: Adibul Hasan Rizvi) is a Pakistani philanthropist, doctor,
Renal
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Rizvi was born on 11 September 1938 in a small village Kalanpur in
Jaunpur district
Jaunpur district is a district in the Varanasi Division of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The district headquarters is Jaunpur which is situated on the banks of the Gomti River. It is located 228 km southeast of the state capital Lu ...
,
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...
,
British India
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Karachi
Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former ...
, 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".Profile of Adeebul Hasan Rizvi Spiritual Legacy website, Published 10 June 2013, Retrieved 7 April 2021
While living in the UK, Rizvi was inspired by the
National Health Service
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and decided to try that idea in Pakistan. Rizvi set up an eight-bed
urology
Urology (from Greek οὖρον ''ouron'' "urine" and '' -logia'' "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary-tract system and the reproductive org ...
ward at the Civil Hospital, Karachi in 1970.
SIUT started as an eight-bed ward at Civil Hospital, Karachi, and has grown to be
Pakistan
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's leading & largest Urology and Transplantation Institute with branches (satellite centers) spreading from Kathore near Karachi to far North in
Azad Kashmir
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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
Liver transplantation or hepatic transplantation is the replacement of a diseased liver with the healthy liver from another person (allograft). Liver transplantation is a treatment option for end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure, al ...
on an infant in Pakistan.
In 2001, police arrested "a gang that was planning to murder" Rizvi.
Awards and recognition
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Ramon Magsaysay Award
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Shousha Prize
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in 2008
* Lifetime Achievement Award by ''The Sindh Association of North America'' in 2015
* Nishan-i-Imtiaz (Medal of Distinction) Award by the
President of Pakistan
The president of Pakistan ( ur, , translit=s̤adr-i Pākiṣṭān), officially the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is the ceremonial head of state of Pakistan and the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces.Awards conferred on 58 military, 73 civil personalities Dawn (newspaper), Published 24 March 2018, Retrieved 7 April 2021