Adeebul Hasan Rizvi

Adeebul Hasan Rizvi, born in 1938 in a village of Jaunpur district in British India, is a Pakistani doctor and renal transplant surgeon who built the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, known as SIUT, in Karachi. After graduating from Dow Medical College in 1968 and training in the United Kingdom, he returned to Pakistan and in 1970 opened an eight-bed urology ward at the Civil Hospital in Karachi, modelled on the idea of the British National Health Service. That ward grew into the largest kidney transplant centre in the country, with satellite centres reaching as far as Azad Kashmir. He leads the Transplant Society of Pakistan and in 2003 headed the team that performed the first successful infant liver transplant in Pakistan. His work has been recognised with the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1998 and several other honours.