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INTRODUCTION:
Born September 11, 1938 (age 82) Kalanpur, United Provinces, British India
Nationality Pakistani Occupation Physician and Surgeon
o Awards
Ramon Magsaysay Award (1998)
Lifetime Achievement Award (2015)
EARLY LIFE AND CAREER PLAN:
Rizvi was born on September 11, 1938 in the small village of Kalanpur in
the state of Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, British India. He graduated from Dow
Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan in 1968. He then went to the UK to do
his graduation studies. After completing his studies there, he returned to
Pakistan. "In those days a lot of people were coming back from the UK
with cars, but guess what, Dr. Rizvi came back with a container full of
medical equipment".While living in the UK, Rizvi was encouraged by the
National Health Service and decided to try that idea in Pakistan. Rizvi set
up an eight-bed urology ward at Civil Hospital, Karachi in 1970.
SIUT started out as an eight-bed ward at Civil Hospital, Karachi, and has
grown into Pakistan's largest and largest center in the Urology and
Transplantation Institute with branches (satellite centers) spread from
Katere near Karachi to as far north as Azad Kashmir. Rizvi is president of
the Transplant Society of Pakistan. In 2003, Rizvi led a team of SIUT
surgeons who successfully performed the first successful liver transplant in
Pakistan. In 2001, police arrested Rizvi "gang of criminals who planned to
kill"
o Awards and Famous Edit
Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1998
Lifetime Achievement Award by The Sindh Association of North America
in 2015
Nishan-Imtiaz (Medal of Distinction) Award by the President of Pakistan
2018.
There, Dr. Adib Rizvi provides free health care to hundreds of thousands
of people every year, providing another much-needed alternative to the
Pakistani public health sector, which critics say is chaotic, corrupt and lacks
great resources.
opportunities, it has been able to provide the best possible health care for
the poor and deserving.
FACILITIES:
This, he admits, was difficult for some to accept - it was so hard that he
received some threats, even though he had exacerbated them. “We always
talk to them and just show them that, look at this man, we are treating him,
he is like you and me. Should I let him die? ” As he walks through the
hospital, Rizvi insists that he has not achieved anything yet, and vows to
take on a non-cancerous enemy next time, calling it a "possible". He rejects
any proposal to retire. “My colleagues, they work the same way. Most of
them have high blood pressure, never, ”he laughs.