Pakistani Cardiac Surgeon Lauds SIUT Role in Mitigating Human Suffering
Karachi – 5 November 2026 (MT Team) : Dr Asif Hasan, the visiting paeds cardiac surgeon from Britain who has recently been honored with a prestigious life time award in the field of paeds cardiac transplant surgery today highlighted the basic ingredients which are essential to achieve success in becoming a successful transplant surgeon. He was speaking at a special lecture before a select gathering of surgeons and other medical practitioners here at SIUT (Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation) on Wednesday. Title of his lecture was “Pursuit of Excellence-A Reflection from a Surgical Career”.
Punctuated with poetic verses from Ghalib to Iqbal he traced his own journey of success which groomed him as transplant surgeon. He underlined the need to acquire both passion and patience to acquire excellence as a transplant surgeon. He also paid rich tribute to Prof Adib Rizvi the founding Director of SIUT.
Dr Adib for his outstanding work of renal transplantation in Pakistan. Dr Rizvi was also present at the lecture.
Visiting British paeds- cardiac surgeon who has the credit of carrying out 400 hear transplants for children who are born with complex heart conditions. He also contributed to more than 4,000 other major heart operations. Dr Asif underlined the need of training young and upcoming cardiac surgeons to ensure that they have entered in a specialized field of surgery but there is needs that they must go forward and touch the new frontiers of their adopted field.
During his lecture he informed his own role in developing cardiac surgery services in different countries including Pakistan. Dr Asif called upon the young surgeons that continuous training and research, team work and above all exchange of knowledge and keeping pace with the development are vital for their progress.
Dr Asif Hasan who had worked in a New Castle hospital is a former graduate of Dow Medical College Karachi. He received British Lifetime Achievement Award for his meritorious services for the year of 2026.
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