[1][2] Rizvi was born on 11 September 1938 in a small village Kalanpur in Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh, British India.
[3] While living in the UK, Rizvi was inspired by the National Health Service and decided to try that idea in Pakistan.
Rizvi set up an eight-bed urology ward at the Civil Hospital, Karachi in 1970.
[3][1] SIUT started as an eight-bed ward at Civil Hospital, Karachi, and has grown to be Pakistan's leading & largest Urology and Transplantation Institute with branches (satellite centers) spreading from Kathore near Karachi to far North in Azad Kashmir.
[6] In 2003, Rizvi led a team of SIUT surgeons that performed the first successful liver transplant on an infant in Pakistan.