In a moment of unimaginable grief, a female nephrologist from Karachi donated both kidneys of her only 23-year-old son, who was declared brain dead after a tragic road accident, saving the lives of two patients awaiting transplant.
The deceased, Syed Sultan Zafar, 23, was a dental student at the Ziauddin Medical and Dental College and the only son of Dr Mahar Afroze, a Consultant Nephrologist and Associate Professor at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT).
He was the grandson of two of Pakistan’s highly respected health experts — Professor Tipu Sultan and Professor Dr Shershah Syed.
According to Prof Tipu, the deceased’s father Syed Furqan Zafar had died a few years ago due to liver cancer and is buried in Kohi Goth, where the family runs a charity hospital. Sultan Zafar will now be laid to rest beside his father.
Narrating the devastating ordeal, Prof Tipu Sultan said Sultan Zafar met with a fatal road accident last Wednesday morning while driving with friends in a private housing society in Karachi.
