On 6/14, Ain Shams University organized the World Blood Donation Day celebration on the campus of the Faculty of Medicine, at Ain Shams University, under the auspices of Prof. Mahmoud El-Meteini, President of the University, and Prof. Ali Al-Anwar, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Directors of University Hospitals, and Prof. Hala Sweed, Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development, Prof. Tariq Youssef, Executive Director of University Hospitals, and Prof. Iman Omar, Head of the Clinical Pathology Department, supervising the organization, Asst. Prof. Dalia Diaa El-Din Salem, Assistant Professor in the Clinical Pathology Department and Coordinator of the Voluntary Donation Program Permanent 5 for 1.

On the sidelines of the celebration and as a continuation of the launch of the 5 for 1 program, which aims to provide 5 donors for each patient with blood diseases, kidney failure, tumors, and marrow transplantation, who need continuous blood transfusions from regular donors so that they do not have antibodies that make it difficult to provide safe blood for these patients, and for this purpose, a competition was held with the participation of seven teams from five schools to compete for the best advertising campaign to urge the community to donate and spread the culture of permanent voluntary donation.

The jury consisted of:

Prof. Salwa Youssef

Professor of clinical pathology and pioneer of blood transfusion medicine

Prof. Dina Farouk Abu Zeid

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Media for Community Service and Environmental Development and responsible for the Media Center, at Ain Shams University

Prof. Abeer Attia Saad El Din

Professor of clinical pathology and supervisor of the main blood bank at Ain Shams University Hospitals

Asst. Prof. Nahla Ahmed Suleiman

Assistant Professor, at the Department of French, at the Faculty of Education.

And the translation was done by

Christina Samir

Assistant Lecturer, at the Department of French, at the Faculty of Al-Alsun

The celebration also included speeches highlighting the effective role of blood banks in Ain Shams University Hospitals and the future vision of Ain Shams Medical City.

The ceremony was attended by a group of professors from various academic and clinical departments from different universities and the armed forces, led by them:

Prof. Shahira Samir, Executive Director of the International Relations and Academic Collaboration Sector at Ain Shams University, Prof. Fikry Gibran, Professor of Blood Transfusion Medicine, at the Faculty of Medicine, at Suez Canal University, Prof. Mohsen Al-Alfi, Professor of Pediatric Hematology, Prof. Rasha Rifai, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, at Helwan University, Brigadier General. Dr. Muhammad Al-Badawi Muhammad, Director of the Blood Banks of the Armed Forces.

Certificates of appreciation were distributed to all participating students and cups were handed over to the first three places.

It is worth noting that there is a second part of the competition that depends on applying the advertising campaign that won first place and measuring the return of this application by attracting the largest number of permanent volunteer donors.