KARACHI: Paying tribute to a living legend of Pakistan, the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday unanimously demanded that the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) be named after Dr Adibul Hasan Rizvi in recognition of his outstanding services.

Members of the Sindh Assembly, including Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, recalled Dr Rizvi’s selfless services and termed The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) a model organisation.

They also suggested that the government send its newly inducted administrative officers there to see how government institutions could deliver to the people.

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Pakistan Muslim League-Functional lawmaker Saeed Khan Nizamani tabled a resolution, which reads: “The assembly pays tributes to Dr Adibul Hasan Rizvi for his meritorious services of providing health facilities continuously to the people of Pakistan. His services would always be remembered in the history and the way he is serving is an example for us.

“This assembly must recommend that the name of Civil Hospital Karachi be replaced with the name of Dr Adibul Hasan Rizvi Civil Hospital, Karachi.”

The resolution, when put to a vote in the house after speeches, was unanimously adopted.

Speaking on the resolution, Mr Nizamani said that Dr Rizvi’s services for humanity were outstanding and at the SIUT treatment was provided without any discrimination between the rich and the poor.

CM Shah said that he had known Dr Rizvi since 1970 and his services had always been for the people. Health Minister Dr Jam Mehtab Dahar said Dr Rizvi was a great personality and he considered him an angel. He said that three liver transplant centres would start functioning in June. One centre was being set up at the SIUT while two others at the Dow University of Health Sciences and Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences.

The parliamentary party leader of the MQM, Syed Sardar Ahmad, also termed Dr Rizvi an angel and said that the best tribute to him would be to name the CHK after him.

The PML-F’s Mehtab Akbar Rashdi and Dr Muhammad Rafiq Bhanban, MQM’s Muhammad Hussain, Dr Zafar Kamali and Naila Munir, Pakistan Peoples Party’s Khair-un-Nisa Moghul, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, Taimour Talpur, Dr Sikander Mandro, Jam Khan Shoro and Imdada Ali Pitafi paid tribute to Dr Rizvi and termed him a living legend.

Published in Dawn, April 29th, 2015

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