KARACHI: The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) is set to formally launch a fully fledged dialysis/lithotripsy centre in the recently acquired building of erstwhile Regent Plaza on Sharea Faisal.

Currently, the SIUT Trust Hospital is equipped with 60 beds and dialysis sessions are being conducted on a daily basis. The capacity is likely to be enhanced to 200 sessions per day.

“Last year, the hospital acquired a multi-storeyed hotel building located in the central part of the city. The aim was to address shortage of space as the existing establishment seeing an ever increasing flow of patients,” says a hospital official.

The SIUT began its journey in 1971 with only eight beds at the Civil Hospital Karachi. Over the years, the hospital team made remarkable progress and hit several milestones one after the other, providing state-of-the-art treatment facilities in urology, nephrology hepatogastroenterology and paediatric urology, cardiology and, above all, transplantation.

“It provides medical facilities completely free of cost and without any discrimination,” says a press release.

Published in Dawn, November 30th, 2025