24 Sep 2020: Consul General Thatree Chauvachata and his deputy Apipan as well as staff of the Royal Thai Consulate-General paid a visit to the Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, welcomed by Professor & Director Dr. Syed Adibul Hasan Rizvi and his SIUT team. SIUT, a dialysis & kidney transplant centre, was founded by Dr. Adibul Hasan Rizvi and it is Pakistan's largest kidney disease center, as well as Pakistan's largest public sector health organisation. It began as a department of urology at the government-run Civil Hospital in 1970 and became autonomous in 1991. In 2003 doctors at SIUT performed Pakistan's first liver transplant. In 2004, a child care unit was opened. All services provided by SIUT, including dialysis and transplantation, are provided free of cost.