With an unchallenged position in the centers of his compatriots, the leading Egyptian center surgeon, Dr. Magdi Yacoub, has rightly been dubbed “the king of centers”.
After years of tireless volunteering and an exceptional career, he saw the need for a concerted entity.
In 1995, Yacoub established the charity Chain of Hope, which treats children with serious life-threatening illnesses in emerging countries.
After 11 years of treating Egyptian children at the Abul-Riche Children’s Hospital in Cairo, he established the Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation (MYF) in 2008.
In 2009, the base established the Aswan Heart Center, a non-profit NGO that provides extensive world-class medical facilities to the less privileged in Egypt and the region suffering from cardiovascular diseases, in addition to carrying out various education and study programs.
One of the main activities of the center is to periodically organize workshops to promote the experience and education of cardiologists in Egypt, which will benefit patients and the fitness formula in general.
In late July, the base announced the organization of workshops for cardiologists from other governorates of Egypt, on the latest strategies for treating central birth defects in children through catheterization.
In a statement from the foundation, he explained that this generation uses complex medicine to replace a pulmonary valve through a catheter instead of open-heart surgery, which facilitates recovery and produces better outcomes for patients.
“Most cases . . . Center birth defects require open-center operations to replace the pulmonary valve, but repeated procedures can pose a major threat to patients, and that’s where the foundation comes in. “
“We can upgrade the broken pulmonary valve by implanting a new valve through the catheter, to become the first and only medium in Egypt to implement this new medical remedy approach and without the help of foreign experts and with one hundred percent Egyptian. “team. Abdul Rahman Al-Afifi, head of MYF’s Department of Pediatric Cardiology, told Ahram Online.
Al-Afifi added that most patients with remedy were able to leave the hospital two days after implantation of the new lung without repeated blood transfusions.
In the last two years, 19 patients have been operated on, all of whom have recovered.
Dr. Mahmoud Shihata, a pediatric cardiologist at MYF, said the base is willing to move its practical reports by offering the newest surgeries to Egyptian doctors in other governorates.
Shihata added that the purpose of the workshop is to teach the center’s accurate diagnosis of birth defects to improve the outcomes of interventional remedy, surgical remedy or medical follow-up of children.
He concluded by saying that the workshops cover the entire spectrum of cardiology in Egypt, sharing and exchanging reports with specialists, experts and professors from other Egyptian universities and fitness authorities, adding the comprehensive fitness insurance and educational hospital formula of the Ministry of Health.