Prof. Dr. Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din, Advisor to the President of the Republic for Health Affairs, witnessed the scientific day of the Chest Department at the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, to announce the start of work on the recent updates to the protocol of Ain Shams University Hospitals to treat the emerging corona virus, under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Muhammad Awad Tag al-Din, Advisor to the President of the Republic for Health Affairs, Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Dr. Ashraf Omar, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Chairman of the Hospitals Board of Directors and Prof. Dr. Ali Al-Anwar, CEO of Ain Shams University Hospitals.

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Awad Tag El-Din expressed his happiness to participate in the event, which is witnessed by a group of professors specialized in chest and internal diseases, describing them as guerrillas who do not expect anything in return for serving the community. He also praised the positions of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who was keen from the beginning to take all necessary precautions to confront Corona crisis, and provide it with all the adequate financial support to confront it.

Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini thanked and appreciated those in charge of the Department of Chest Diseases in Ain Shams Medicine, and he praised the role of the department and described it as the heroic role that lasted for more than a year to confront the Corona pandemic and is still continuing and influential so far, as the department had an important role in treatment and dissemination of prevention methods And awareness within Ain Shams University Hospitals, the Isolation Hospital in transit and the field hospital, and it also played a major role in receiving infected cases through the hotline and WhatsApp at all levels.

For his part, Prof. Dr. Ali Al-Anwar explained that today he will work to discuss the latest scientific findings in the treatment of Covid-19 and how to update and add to that, thanking the professors in the Chest Department for their effective participation in confronting Covid-19, as well as thanking those in charge of isolation hospitals and intensive care by sections.

This was praised by Prof. Dr. Ali Al-Anwar in the chest department, describing it as one of the strongest departments in Ain Shams medicine, where it has intermediate and intensive care, which was equipped with millions of pounds, as it was equipped at the highest level, making it distinguished from many chest hospitals in Egypt, where the hospital is an integrated hospital where there are It has everything a chest patient needs in one place in terms of treatment and examinations, in addition to the presence of a human wealth of professors at a high level in terms of professional and scientific terms.

During his participation in today’s activities, Prof. Dr. Tarek Youssef, Director of Ain Shams University Hospital, said that the work teams in all university hospitals are characterized by a high level of professionalism and knowledge and are able to keep pace with all that is new, praising the roles of colleagues in the chest and internal departments, endemic diseases, the elderly, anaesthesia and intensive care.