Aswan University president Prof/ Ahmed Ghallab Mohamed declared that in frame of implementing state and Higher education ministry directives to raise the efficiency of University hospitals and working on reducing burden on patient in Aswan and upper Egypt governorates, and a preparatory meeting was held headed by Dr. Mohamed Zaki Dahshouri_ Faculty of Medicine dean and Director of Kidney transplant program at Aswan University Hospital_ in order to know the readiness of Aswan University Hospital in preparation for inviting the specialized committee through the Ministry of Health to start kidney transplant at Aswan University Hospital, in attendance of Dr. Ashraf Mebed_ Executive manager of Aswan University Hospitals.
Dr. Mohamed Zaki Al-Dahshouri _ Faculty of Medicine Dean_ added that the Urology department is being developed, in preparing for conducting kidney transplant operations in university hospital. The meeting was attended by members of Urology department, Nephrology department, and clinical pathology department, Anesthesiology department, the staff has been trained in major specialized hospitals such as Dr. Mohamed Ghonaim center in Mansoura, in order to prepare the qualified manpower scientifically, medically and administratively, Working on providing all necessary means as devices, laboratories, intensive care operating rooms, after performing kidney transplant surgeries and the important preparations for receiving the committee entrusted with granting licenses to start kidney transplant at Aswan University Hospital.
This approach is to solve the problems of Renal failure patients who frequent the dialysis units in the governorate and the neighboring governorates of Upper Egypt, Dr. Ashraf Mebed, Executive manager of University Hospitals_ indicated that the meeting dealt with all the requirements for conducting kidney transplant operations at Aswan university Hospital, which have a great impact on patients and their families from Health, social and economic aspects in terms of the patient with Renal failure stops working, which affects on family income, as it imposes great economic burdens on the state during the period of illness, and kidney transplant operations are less expensive for the patient than the cost of dialysis, but they make him able to work, produce, improve gradually and carry out his tasks in his life better.