Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) has rejected reports claiming the centre's founder, Dr Adib Rizvi, is critically ill.
The urology and transplantation centre issued an official announcement regarding the "false and baseless" reports circulating on digital and social media.
"The public at large is informed that Dr Adib Rizvi is in the best of health," the announcement read.
"All such news is false and untrue," it added.
SIUT also requested the public to not to circulate such news without authentication.
Dr Rizvi is is a prominent surgeon who played a vital role in introducing transplant surgery in the country.
SIUT is a hospital that started off as an eight-bed surgery ward in Civil Hospital, Karachi in 1972. But Dr Adib’s care for the indigent patients at the ward and support of the administration resulted in the unit’s recognition as the Department of Urology and Transplantation in 1986.
Five years later, in 1992, the department became an institution and started functioning, offering free-of-charge medical services to people who can otherwise not afford treatment.
Skilled professionals at SIUT attend patients for services including major and minor surgeries, dialysis, transplants, radiology tests and laboratory investigations.
