8/11/2024
In continuation of the implementation of the initiative of His Excellency President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, for human development, a new beginning for building the Egyptian person, the Community Service and Environmental Development Sector organized a symposium entitled "The Role of Youth in Confronting Drugs", which was held at the Faculty of Physical Therapy, to educate students about the dangers and harms of using substances that affect mental health, and to correct misconceptions among young people about drugs, in cooperation and coordination with the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction and Abuse, under the auspices of Dr. Abdel Razek Desouky, President of the University, Dr. Amani Shaker, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, and Dr. Amr Othman, Director of the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction and Abuse in Kafr El-Sheikh, which comes in activation of the protocol signed between Kafr El-Sheikh University and the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction and Abuse and implementing the plan of the Environmental Affairs Sector for the academic year 2024/2025 AD.
This came in the presence of Dr. Mahmoud Awida, Dean of the Faculty of Physical Therapy, Dr. Anis Saleh, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, Dr. Basem Muhammad Ali, Toxicology Expert at the Forensic Medicine Authority, and Nafeh Hamada, Director General of Environmental Projects at the University.
Dr. Abdel Razek Desouky, President of the University, stressed that the aim of holding these seminars is to raise awareness among university students about the dangers of addiction and drugs, their types, and methods of confrontation and treatment, as part of the national plan to combat the phenomenon of addiction and drug abuse, which the university is implementing in cooperation with the Anti-Addiction Treatment Fund, which the state is adopting within the framework of efforts to build the human being and preserve the health and safety of citizens, stressing that addiction leads to the loss and waste of human resources and affects work and production, and that combating addiction and drugs contributes to protecting society and individuals from this imminent danger.
For her part, Dr. Amani Shaker, Vice President of the University for Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs, stressed that the university administration is keen to hold and implement educational and awareness programs to spread the culture of awareness of the harms and dangers of drugs, of all kinds, and to correct misconceptions within the framework of community participation and implementation of the national plan to combat drug abuse. She also praised the fruitful cooperation between the university and the Anti-Addiction and Treatment Fund.
The symposium addressed: defining substances that affect mental health, the harm of drugs to the individual, the harm of drugs to the family and society, the role of youth in confronting the drug problem, the efforts made by the Egyptian state to confront drugs, how to detect addiction early, mechanisms for dealing with an addict, drugs and their impact on the progress of societies and the building of nations, and the therapeutic role of the Fund for Combating and Treating Addiction through the hotline 16023, which provides treatment in complete confidentiality and for free.
