Doctor transplanting hope to millions

Compassion and care: A man bringing his daughter for dialysis at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation. (Inset) Dr Rizvi treats people from all walks of life, including criminals. — AFP

KARACHI: Camped on the baking concrete outside a gleaming transplant centre, the city’s sick have come from miles around in desperate hope for a last chance at life.

There, Dr Adibul Rizvi, a urological surgeon, provides free medical care to hundreds of thousands of people each year, providing a much-needed alternative to Pakistan’s public health sector, which critics dismiss as chaotic, corrupt and vastly under-resourced.