KARACHI: Tributes were paid to Professor Younus Soomro a prominent orthopaedic surgeon of the city and former Head of the Department at Civil Hospital at a memorial meeting organised by the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) here on Thursday.

Professor Soomro, who passed away recently served both at the Dow Medical College and the Civil Hospital for 23 years. Paying tributes to late surgeon the Director of SIUT Professor Adib Rizvi described him as a "dedicated and a compassionate medical professional whose doors were always opened for poor patients".

He also recalled that Prof Soomro also made immense contribution in his specialized field first by upgrading his own department and also by training young doctors who later obtained post graduate degrees with distinctions and established themselves as leading orthopaedic surgeons. He said another land mark contribution of Prof Soomro was introduction of Russian technology of "Ilizarov" which is used for correction of deformities and limb length discrepancy.-PR

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