Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT)
founder Prof Dr Adib Rizvi is recovering from a chest infection and is
expected to be discharged from hospital in a couple of days.
Dr
Rizvi, the pioneer of organ transplant surgery in the country, was
admitted to SIUT in Karachi as he was suffering from a chest infection
and influenza, a statement posted on SIUT's Facebook page said.
As
admirers expressed concern over the health of the widely-respected
surgeon, the statement clarified on Monday evening that Dr Rizvi was
kept in the high dependency unit for three days but is now being moved
to his room.
The doctor is expected to be discharged from
SIUT in the next two to three days, the statement said, adding: "There
is no cause of alarm or anxiety."
The SIUT thanked the public who expressed concern at Dr Rizvi's health.
The
SIUT was born as an eight-bed surgery ward in Karachi’s Civil Hospital
in 1972. The confidence of the administration and the people that Dr
Rizvi won by his zeal for the methodical care of indigent patients
facilitated the small unit’s recognition as the Department of Urology
and Transplantation in 1986.
Five years later, it became an autonomous institution under a Sindh act and became functional as SIUT in 1992.
The
institute now takes care of nearly a million patients per year, and
specialises in providing emergency services, major and minor surgical
procedures, lithotripsy and dialysis sessions, transplants, radiology
tests and laboratory investigations by extraordinarily skilled
professionals.
More than 300 transplants and 260,000
dialysis sessions were carried out in 2015 alone, with follow-up
treatments and medications provided for as long as it takes — all
entirely for free.
