Adeebul Hasan Rizvi

Adeebul Hasan Rizvi (also spelled: Adibul Hasan Rizvi) is head of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT).[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.[2]

Rizvi is the president of the Transplant Society of Pakistan.[3] In 2003, Rizvi led a team of SIUT surgeons that performed the first successful liver transplant on an infant in Pakistan.[4]

In 2001, police arrested "a gang that 'was planning to murder'" Rizvi.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "KARACHI: Experts back ban on organ ‘donation’ to foreigners". www.dawn.com. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
  2. ↑ "Prof Dr. Adeebul Hasan Rizvi". www.siut.org. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
  3. ↑ "Zardari donates all body organs", The News International, March 18, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Pakistan performs first successful liver transplant on an infant", abc.net.au, November 30, 2003
  5. ↑ 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.

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