"A Promise Made 10 Years Ago with Pakistan Kidney Institute to Save Lives is Reaffirmed Today with PKLI & RC"
While working as Chairman, Department of Urology at Texas Tech University, Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, USA, Prof. Dr. Saeed Akhter decided to come back to Pakistan, with a zeal and mission to serve his country and improve the overall health care standards. Working in the real world, entrenched with poverty, misery, pain and social injustice, the real problems of Pakistan started emerging infront of him, and the realization that disease and sickness is a great test for anyone, but when this test combines with poverty and inability to pay for the treatment, it becomes absolutely unbearable. As he joined Shifa International Hospital (SIH) in 2000 he and his team started a state of the art urology and transplant program, which is now considered one of the best programs in the country. A team of competent well-trained doctors carry out wide spectrum of procedures daily including pediatric (children) and adult kidney transplant, complex cancer surgeries, reconstruction surgeries, comprehensive stone management program, female urology and pediatric urology surgeries at par with any developed nation following international standards.
Pakistan Kidney Institute
Pakistan Kidney Institute (PKI), a center of excellence in urology, nephrology and kidney transplant was laid at Shifa International Hospital. The vision of PKI is to create an institute of urology, nephrology, and transplantation following the highest international standards of ethical and professional practices and a state of the art clinical care using the most modern technologies to poor at par with rich people of Pakistan irrespective of race, religion and the color. Since its inception, PKI has and continues to work for the prevention of kidney failure, urological cancers and stones by education and early intervention. State of the art education and training using structured training program at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels for doctors and school of nursing and paramedics is one of the trademark of PKI. Since its establishment, PKI has made a difference in the following areas:
Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute
PKI, at Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad has been serving poor patients from Punjab, KPK, Azad Kashmir, FATA, Baluchistan and Afghanistan for last eleven years. The work of PKI has been ever increasing and need for establishing a bigger independent institute that could treat larger population and also address the liver diseases was felt to be badly needed. PKI wanted to launch a state of the art center of excellence in urology, nephrology, liver diseases and the transplantation under the name of Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute and Research Center (PKLI & RC). A meeting was held with honorable Chief Minister of Punjab, Mian Shehbaz Sharif, who very kindly agreed with the concept and agreed to provide 60 acres of land and the seed money for PKLI & RC.