Dr. Rana Irfan

Dr Rana Irfan is a hair restoration surgeon at Vagus Surgery Clinic in sector F-8/4, Islamabad 12. The site says he graduated from Quaid-e-Azam Medical College in 1994 2. It says he began in hair restoration by assisting other surgeons and set up his own practice in 2001 2. It says he worked as a consultant hair restoration surgeon at Faisal Hospital, Faisalabad, from 2003 to 2009 2. He performs procedures alongside his wife, Dr Uzma Irfan, whom the site calls a qualified hair restoration surgeon 2. The site says about 90% of his patients travel from abroad 3.

The clinic offers FUE, FUT (which it also calls LSE, linear strip excision) and a combined technique it calls IFI, which it says Dr Irfan invented 3. The site says he has performed FUE since 2007 3. The FUE page says the assessment and procedure are done by a certified surgeon, not a technician 4. For FUT, the site says technicians divide the strip into grafts under microscopes, and the donor area is closed with trichophytic closure 5. It says FUT usually moves 2,000 to 4,000 grafts in one session, and up to about 5,000 for patients with good donor density 5. Beard, eyebrow and female hair restoration are also offered 3.

The homepage says a hair transplant at the clinic costs PKR 100,000 to PKR 400,000, depending on the grafts needed and the technique 3. It does not say what graft counts these figures cover or what is included 3. Other pages say the clinic quotes a price after assessing the scalp 5.

The clinic offers a free consultation 3. Its FAQ says a procedure takes 4 to 8 hours on average and that most patients return to work within 3 to 5 days 6.

Registry records list him as an ABHRS diplomate 7. He is an ISHRS Fellow Member, listed at the clinic's Islamabad address 8. The site says he has been ABHRS certified since 2014 and is the board's Immediate Past President 3. It says he is President of the Hair Restoration Society of Pakistan 2.