Today, Thursday, May 23, 2024, the university launched a comprehensive medical caravan to Al-Kharajeen Village 5 and the neighboring villages in Riyadh center, Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the President of the Republic, and the supervision of Dr. Abdel Razek Desouky, the university president, and Dr. Amany Shaker, the university's Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development. This initiative is part of the presidential initiative "Decent Life" to develop rural Egypt in collaboration with the Decent Life Foundation, continuing the series of caravans launched by the university in villages across the governorate.

This falls within the university's role in contributing to the implementation of the state's plan and the political leadership's directives to build generations capable of keeping pace with the serious steps of the Egyptian state in building a modern state and contributing to its goals in line with the Vision 2030. It also emphasizes the university's role in serving the community within the villages of Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate as part of the presidential initiative "Decent Life."

The caravan was field-supervised by Dr. Amany Shaker, the university's Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development, with oversight by Dr. Wael El-Fiky, the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for Community Service and Environmental Development, Nafea Hamada, the General Manager of the General Administration of Environmental Projects, and Mohamed Salah, the Director of Project Monitoring.

The caravan included several specialized professors from the faculties of medicine, dentistry, and nursing who conducted examinations on a large number of citizens in various medical specialties, including internal medicine, ophthalmology, dermatology, otolaryngology, gynecology, obstetrics, dermatology, reproductive health, psychiatry, neurology, pediatrics, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, urological surgery, brain and nerve surgery, with the participation of students from the Friends of the Environment group at the Faculties of Arts and Physical Education.

Dr. Abdel Razek Desouky, the university president, reiterated the university's commitment to launching the most needed development caravans, noting that the caravan includes a selection of faculty members representing various disciplines from the distinguished faculties of human medicine, dentistry, and nursing.

The university president directed the continued launch of medical and awareness-raising development caravans to the most needy areas in all centers of Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate with the aim of conducting medical examinations and providing free treatment.

Dr. Amany Shaker, the university's Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development, added that the medical caravan conducted medical examinations on 1455 cases from the residents of Al-Kharajeen Village 5 and the neighboring villages, by a group of specialized and distinguished doctors in various fields, as part of the "Decent Life" initiative. Additionally, free treatment was provided to all patients who visited the caravan site.