There are many valuable and heroic figures which Egyptian youth could look up to. One of the most impressive and rarely talked about is Captain Walaa Hafez, often referred to as ‘the maker of miracles’ from Alexandria. After obtaining the record in the longest dive in the world according to the Guinness book of records, Hafez was injured in a car accident on Ismailia-Suez road. The tragic accident resulted in his injury of a dangerous virus due to medical error causing surgical removal of his gallbladder and one of his kidneys; he slipped into a coma which lasted two months and, as he eventually lost all capacity for movement, became a quadriplegic. After Hafez’s injury, the head of Suez Canal authority Moheb Mamysh decided that Egyptian authorities would provide for his treatment in Germany. Hafez stayed a while in the latter, but his health was unstable; the medical team told his wife that he would probably die as soon as the medical devices supporting his body would be stopped. Yet, surprisingly, Hafez managed through. Although Hafez worked as an officer for the Egyptian naval forces, he left the service in…
