Civil Hospital to be renamed after Dr Adeeb-ul-Hasan Rizvi

Karachi
The Sindh Assembly on Tuesday unanimously paid tribute to the founder and director of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), Dr Adeeb-ul-Hasan Rizvi, for his decades-old services to people hailing from all sections of the society.
The private resolution, adopted unanimously by the house, also recommended to the Sindh government to renamed the Civil Hospital Karachi after Dr Rizvi for his untiring efforts to cure kidney and urology-related ailments, and also promoting the cause of organ donation and transplantation.
A number of lawmakers from both treasury and opposition benches sang high praises of the years’ long services Dr Rizvi, saying that he had managed the SIUT in a way to make it a leading example of an excellent and flawless project in public health.
The resolution had been moved by opposition MPA Saeed Khan Nizamani of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F).
It stated: “This assembly pays tribute to Dr Adeeb-ul-Hasan Rizvi for his continuous struggle of providing health facilities to the people of Pakistan. His services will always be remembered in history and his way of working is exemplary to all.
“This assembly must recommend that the name of Civil Hospital Karachi be replaced with the name of Dr Adeeb-ul-Hasan Rizvi Civil Hospital, Karachi.”
Nizamani said that Dr Rizvi by setting up the SIUT had practically diminished the existing social differences between the haves and have-nots in the health sector. Whether a person was poor or influential, he would get the same treatment at SIUT, he said.
Sindh health minister Jam Mehtab Dahar said the Sindhg government had been working to expand the mission of organ transplantation championed by Dr Rizvi.
In lieu of this mission, he said, three liver transplantation centres will be established in Sindh and they will start working from June this year.
He said two of the liver transplant centres will be established in Karachi — one at Dow University of Health Sciences while the other at SIUT itself — and the third one will be built at the Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences.
Parliamentary leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Syed Sardar Ahmed, said that efforts of Dr Rizvi to get the cadaver donation legislation passed and the procedure adopted for organ transplantation through legal means in the country deserved high praise.
He said all the credit went to Dr Rizvi for introducing expensive and complicated procedures of liver transplantation in the country for which the people had to travel to United States.
Sindh chief minister while also putting in his two bits in the discussion said he was aware of the health and organ transplantation services being offered by the SIUT since 1970 when had joined the medical fraternity.
He said the Sindh government under its resolve to extend assistance to noble personalities such as Dr Adeeb-ul-Hasan Rizvi had started the Hepatitis Control Program under which treatment cen­tres had been established at every major government hospital in the province.
He said the government was now planning to establish liver transplantation centres and the first one would be inaugurated by Dr Rizvi himself.

Nadra centres
The House also unanimously adopted a private resolution of MQM MPA Saifuddin Khalid calling upon the Sindh government to approach the federal government to open at least two public-dealing centres of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) in Orangi Town.
He said at present only one Nadra centre was working in Orangi Town area which was insufficient for catering to the needs of 2.5 million people.
The provincial assembly also adopted a resolution moved by MQM’s Muhammad Hussain Khan for paying tribute to the political and journalistic services of a former MPA and senior journalist, Abdul Quddus, who recently passed away in Karachi.

Sindh to buy more wheat
Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah announced in the Sindh Assembly that the provincial government will buy 1.1 million tons of wheat instead of the previous procurement target of 0.9 million tons, keeping in view the problems being faced by growers.
He said the provincial government would judiciously distribute gunny bags within a week among the deserving farmers.
In the past, he said, the federal government had imported substandard wheat from Ukraine and had unduly distributed it for and consumption in Sindh.
According to the chief minister, Sindh did not need to buy more wheat so initially it had set a procurement target of 900,000 tons.
However, later, it had been increased by 200,000 tonnes, to 1.1 million tons in total, in view of the requirements of wheat growers.
Earlier, for sake of interests of farmers in Sindh, he said, the government had paid an additional cost of Rs12 per each maund on procurement of sugarcane and its support price had also been increased from Rs160 per maund to Rs172. On this account, he said, sugarcane mill owners had been paid a sum of Rs2.5 billion.