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The beginning
Hospital 57357 was not built with a magic wand. Still, with vision, planning, effort, and determination, ‘dedicated people’ who did not stop at the painful health reality that children with cancer were living in the 80s but decided to play a role in development and change and provide world-class treatment opportunities for our children with complete fairness. In the early 1980s, alarm bells were triggered by the pain and suffering of children with cancer in the mid-80s. At that time, the health budget was limited. Cancer was not a priority of the state’s interest, as it adopted a national project to treat drought, save newborns, and reduce their death rates. The cost of all the medicines that enter Egypt did not exceed one million dollars annually for cancer, heart, and diabetes diseases together. Amid these circumstances, and in the absence of medicines and capabilities, Egypt’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) could not accommodate the increase in the number of patients, leading to a deterioration in the recovery rates and an increase in the death rate among sick children.
1984
In 1984, the young doctor Dr. Sharif Abu Al-Naga worked at the institute, and he collided with the painful reality. The first tragedy he faced was with the child “Niveen,” a cancer patient, who was one of his first patients at the institute. He felt helpless as he saw the suffering in her eyes and her mother’s eyes, and with the lack of care and capabilities, her condition quickly deteriorated, and Nevin died and was left behind. A huge wound in his heart, and a real desire to change this painful reality.
1986
One day, it was a Tuesday in 1986, Dr. Sharif was exposed to a severe tragedy... Some children were affected, and there was only a little blood, solutions, and cortisone, and there were no reasons to search for tests, no blood picture, no potassium, no partial, no heart drawing, and the embrace of sadness, 13 children died before him on the day of. 16 children... It appears a great impression that the young man could not bear, so he left the institute in despair and decided to abandon medical preparation permanently and sat on the student ladder wanting God to choose disappeared that Al-Shaikhawi would leave poetry every Tuesday to Abu Shakra Restaurant near the institute.
New Idea
Until the mid-eighties, all children who were diagnosed with bone cancer in Egypt were subjected to amputation of their limbs. In the midst of this bleak picture, signs of hope began to appear abroad with the emergence of precise bone surgeries that help remove the tumor and infected tissues and then connect the nerves without resorting to amputation. The new idea on which the development of the children's department at the institute was based was that our children deserve the same level of health care that is available to children in developed countries, and that if we continue to think in the same traditional way, we will not expect different results. This was the beginning of a new era in the concept of resource development through the adoption by two charitable people - Mrs. Samia Abu El-Enein and Mrs. Ola Ghobour - of advanced precise bone surgeries that began to be performed by a young doctor who traveled abroad and trained in them, Dr. Sherif Amin.
1990
Since 1990, we have been applying regular global treatment protocols for bone cancer, which has gradually contributed to protecting children from amputation, and improving the recovery rates in the field of bone cancer in children. With the increase in the survival rate of children, we began expanding the department, increasing the number of beds from 8 to 30 beds, then 60 beds, 30 of which were funded by the Inner Wheel and Rotary Clubs of Giza, and the Rotary Club of Os Holland. Then we succeeded in reaching the number of beds to 120 beds.
First clinical pharmacy
Until the mid-eighties, all children who were diagnosed with bone cancer in Egypt were subjected to amputation of their limbs. In the midst of this bleak picture, signs of hope began to appear abroad with the emergence of precise bone surgeries that help remove the tumor and infected tissues and then connect the nerves without resorting to amputation. The new idea on which the development of the children's department at the institute was based was that our children deserve the same level of health care that is available to children in developed countries, and that if we continue to think in the same traditional way, we will not expect different results. This was the beginning of a new era in the concept of resource development through the adoption by two charitable people - Mrs. Samia Abu El-Enein and Mrs. Ola Ghobour - of advanced precise bone surgeries that began to be performed by a young doctor who traveled abroad and trained in them, Dr. Sherif Amin.
Advertising campaign and the beginning of social work
In 1995, the first activation of social work began, which did not have a clear role at that time. In that year, three businessmen donated seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the institute... they were Hossam Qabbani, Ahmed Bahjat, and Safwan Thabet. Dr. Sherif Abu Al-Naja, who was responsible for the children’s department at the institute, proposed to Dr. At that time, Reda Hamza, the dean of the institute, had a new idea of directing these funds to implement a huge advertising campaign to collect donations for the institute, as the first initiative of this kind in the field of charitable work in Egypt, as at that time all donations that reached the institute annually did not exceed one million pounds. This was a new and bold idea, and in order for the adventure to be studied and the plan to be completed on correct scientific foundations, a specialized idea was sought to implement the advertising campaign, represented by Tarek Nour, a pioneer of the art of advertising in Egypt, who donated his efforts and ideas. The huge advertising campaign was carried out in Ramadan 1995, and it was a very successful campaign that touched the hearts of Egyptians and drew their attention for the first time to the importance of supporting children with cancer. It contributed to the societal movement towards charitable work, so that the lines of donors to the institute closed Qasr Al-Aini Street and reached the Corniche. The result of the campaign was that donations during Ramadan alone reached 28.5 million pounds, and the turnout continued until donations reached 72 million during the entire year, after they had not exceeded one million only per year.
Visiting St. Jude…and the beginning of the dream
In 1996, Dr. Sherif Abul Naga traveled to America and visited St. Jude Hospital as a global model hospital specializing in treating children’s cancer. He found that the best hospitals and universities in America are non-governmental organizations established by civil society. He had a dream of establishing a similar hospital in Egypt, which would be the largest children’s cancer hospital in the world. Dr. Reda Hamza encouraged him to achieve the dream. The idea was to rely on donations, not the state.
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