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Aswan Governor Inaugurates Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital – Shorouk Newspaper

Major General Ashraf Attia, Governor of Aswan, inaugurated on Wednesday the intensive care unit at Aswan University Hospital, which was fully equipped by the Egyptian Cure Bank in record time to serve 1.6 million people in Aswan Governorate. This came in the presence of Dr. Ahmed Ghallab, President of Aswan University, and Dr. Moez Al-Shahdi, CEO of the Egyptian Cure Bank, where the intensive care unit includes basic devices for each bed (artificial respirators, patient follow-up screens, solution pump devices, solution syringe devices, in addition to 10 electric beds for patients controlled by the patient, and the nurse in all patient care conditions, as well as other auxiliary devices such as (electric suction devices, defibrillator, electrocardiogram and air mattresses). The Governor praised the national and societal role of the Egyptian Cure Bank in upgrading the health system and working to support and support government efforts by equipping the intensive care unit in Aswan University Hospitals, which will contribute to raising the level of quality of treatment service provided to the Aswan citizen, stressing that there is a vital role for Aswan University Hospital to receive patients in light of the employment of most central and quality hospitals as isolation for Corona patients "Covid 19". He continued: "We are also racing against time to develop, replace and renovate 11 hospitals and 112 health units at a total cost of EGP 128.3 billion as part of the ongoing preparations for the implementation of the universal health insurance system among the governorates of the first phase. For his part, Dr. Moez Al-Shahdi, CEO of the Egyptian Cure Bank, said that the bank has been working for ten years to provide a system of free health care for citizens who are unable to afford the cost of treatment from members of the Egyptian society through their expertise in the field of charitable and health work, and their strong and permanent partnerships with entities concerned with providing health service from government and university hospitals. Al-Shahdi added that the intensive care unit is an essential component in any hospital, which is what we call the "life-saving unit for patients", and during the past years, the Egyptian Cure Bank has supported several intensive care units with ventilators and assistive devices, to be the fourth intensive care unit within Aswan University Hospital.