According to local news outlet, Egyptian health icon and renewed professor of Cardiothoracic surgery, Magdy Yacoub is opening a heart center in Cairo. Its inauguration is expected to be in January 2020, with the laying of the center foundation set to take place soon, as per Egypt Today. The Magdy Yacoub Global Heart Foundation, which hopes that the Cairo center will mirror the great success of the Aswan Heart Center in Upper Egypt in providing cardiac care, began fundraising in May 2019. Its costs are expected to reach $150 million, with a capacity of holding 300 beds, 17,000 inpatients and 140,000 outpatients. The Cairo Center is also expected to provide job opportunities with increased training programs and potential for advancing scientific research. Seeking to inspire new development in cardiovascular surgery and treatment in a groundbreaking project, the renowned Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation (MYF) is an Egyptian registered charity NGO which was founded in 2008 by Sir Magdi Yacoub, the Dr. Ahmed Zewail and Ambassador Mohamed Shaker. One of its most important missions has been to provide free and medically-current health services to Egypt, especially those in vulnerable age-groups and with…
Magdy Yacoub Foundation to Inaugurate Cairo Heart Center in 2020
September 25, 2019
