Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation

The Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation (SIUT) is a dialysis & kidney transplant centre located in Pakistan.[1] SIUT was founded by Dr. Adibul Hasan Rizvi and it is Pakistan's largest kidney disease center,[2][3] as well as Pakistan's largest public sector health organisation. It began as a department of urology at the government-run Civil Hospital in 1970[4] and became autonomous in 1991. Ten to twelve transplants are performed weekly, and in 2003, doctors at SIUT performed Pakistan's first liver transplant.[4] In 2004, a child care unit was opened.[5]

Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation (SIUT)
Dewan Farooq Medical Complex
Free with diginity
Geography
LocationSIUT Karachi Pakistan Near Civil hospital Karachi, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan Pakistan
Organisation
TypeMedical teaching
Affiliated universityHEC CPSP
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds1000
History
Opened1970 by Adibul Hasan Rizvi
Links
Websitewww.siut.org

All services provided by SIUT, including dialysis and transplantation, are provided free of cost with dignity.[4][6]

SIUT Chablani Medical Center Sukkur
Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation (SIUT)
SIUT Chablani Medical Centre
Geography
LocationMinaret Road، Takkar Muhalla,, Sukkur, Sindh, Pakistan Pakistan
Organisation
TypeSpecialist and teaching
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds110
History
Opened2012 by Prof Dr. Adibul Hasan Rizvi
Links
Websitewww.siut.org

Establishing SIUT, Sukkur, was an innovative response to the need of the people of Sindh was planned in the year 2009. Since SIUT holds human life valuable and healthcare as the people's birthright, kidney patients "are not allowed to die because they cannot afford to live". Dr Rizvi anticipates the needs of his patients and responds accordingly. To make dialysis accessible, he conceptualized a network of satellite centers in various parts of Pakistan to save patients the trouble of commuting from far-flung areas of Sindh, southern parts of Punjab and Baluchistan to go for this procedure twice a week as far as Karachi.[7][8]

Introduction and background

At last on 2 February 2012 Prof. Dr. Adibul Hasan Rizvi, Director Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, along with a team of doctors and paramedical staff inaugurated SIUT-Chablani Medical Center Sukkur. Initially as a day care Dialysis Center with 16 Haemodialysis machines and OPD, which shall facilitate a large number of underprivileged patients of Upper Sindh, Lower Punjab & Baluchistan.[9]

Indoor facilities

Clinical laboratory

On 3 October 2013, a special ceremony was held at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) Chablani Medical Center to dedicate its clinical laboratory in memory of Dr Tanveer Abbasi a renowned writer, poet and intellectual of Sindh.[10]

Indoor ward

In second phase in April 2014, SIUT Chablani Medical center was upgraded to a full-fledged hospital, having 36-bed in its indoor ward. The indoor facilities reported 1,256 indoor admissions in same year and 33,918 patients went to the thrice-a-week outpatient clinic, 16,403 dialysis sessions were performed with 16 Hemodialysis machines, 2,400 patients received lithotripsy, the laboratory carried out 111,913 tests and 4,254 surgeries.[8][11]

Operation Theater Complex

The Operation Theater Complex was completed with PKR =260/= million and was finally inaugurated on the Saturday 27 April 2019 having four State-of-the-art Operation theaters with a total capacity of 60 beds of which 10 are in the surgical ICU.[12]

Kidney transplant

SIUT is performing deceased organ donation since two decades as one person loses his fight to live every 3 minutes due to end stage organ failure in the country.

First renal transplant was performed at SIUT Chablani Medical Center, Sukkur on Sunday 28 April 2019.[11]

See also

References
  1. SIUT to resume transplantation activities Dawn (newspaper), Published 19 August 2020, Retrieved 23 August 2020
  2. "At SIUT, we don't let them die because they cannot afford to live". Sindh Institute Of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) website. Archived from the original on 27 January 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  3. Shazia Hasan (15 June 2013). "The SIUT Story: Making the 'Impossible' Possible launched". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  4. Ebrahim, Zofeen (23 December 2003). "Debate Reopened on Whether Organ Donations are Islamic". IPS News. Inter Press Service. Archived from the original on 25 November 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  5. Siddiqui, Nizamuddin (16 February 2004). "KARACHI: Unit for children at SIUT set up". Dawn (newspaper). Archived from the original on 29 September 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  6. Shaikh Abdul Rasheed (27 November 2015). "SIUT, Sukkur treats kidney patients for free". The Nation (newspaper). Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  7. "For humanity: In Sukkur, SIUT starts 24-hour emergency OPD". The Express Tribune (newspaper). 5 November 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  8. "SIUT's philosophy: At people's doorstep; Official website of Zubeida Mustafa Category Archives: SIUT". 9 April 2014.
  9. "SIUT-Chablani Medical Centre Sukkur starts Dialysis and Day Care Services". Pakistan Press International (news agency). 2 February 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  10. Sarfaraz Memon (3 October 2013). "Honouring a humanist: SIUT Sukkur opens clinic in memory of writer, poet". The Express Tribune (newspaper). Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  11. "SIUT performs first renal transplant in Sukkur". The Express Tribune (newspaper). 29 April 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  12. "SIUT`s OT Complex inaugurated in Sukkur". 28 April 2019.

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