Dr. Hassan Al-Nu’many, President of Sohag University, announced that Banque Misr donated 48 million pounds to equip the intensive care unit at Shifa Children’s University Hospital as a gift from President El-Sisi. This donation is based on the cooperation protocol signed with Mr. Essam El-Wakil, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Banque Misr, and the Banque Misr Social Foundation.
Dr. Magdy El-Qadi, Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Ali El-Saidi, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation and former Minister of Electricity, Dr. Ahmed Kamal, Executive Director of University Hospitals, Dr. Ahmed Jaafar, Director of Shifa Children’s Hospital, and Heba Hussein, Executive Director of the Foundation, at the bank’s headquarters in Cairo.
Al-Nu’many stressed that the university is working diligently and cooperating with all community institutions to complete the equipping and furnishing of Shifa Children’s Hospital as quickly as possible, in preparation for its anticipated presidential opening, especially since operating the hospital has become an urgent necessity that cannot be postponed because it will have a direct impact on supporting health services for the children of Upper Egypt and meeting their treatment needs, as it is a model and an advanced medical facility in Sohag University.
Al-Nu’many praised the efforts of Banque Misr, which always provides a positive model to be emulated in social responsibility, especially in supporting distinguished medical institutions to contribute to ensuring that citizens receive the health services they need with a distinguished degree of quality.
He explained that this cooperation is not new, as the Bank of Egypt Foundation equipped two operating rooms in the new Specialized Surgery Hospital last January at a total value of 9 million and 500 thousand pounds, and also donated 6 intensive care beds to university hospitals, with all their equipment at a cost of 5 million pounds.
Dr. Magdy El-Qadi stated that Shefaa Children’s Hospital is situated on an area of 5.6 acres and is considered the largest children’s medical complex in the country, with a total cost exceeding one billion Egyptian pounds. It consists of a basement, a ground floor, and six upper floors, and includes 263 beds, 122 patient rooms, 17 outpatient clinics, three endoscopy rooms, five operating rooms, in addition to dialysis units and a neonatal intensive care unit.