An awareness campaign about diabetes and hypertension was launched on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 8-9, 2022, organized by faculty of medicine’s students union’s scientific committee on the campuses in Sahary and Abu Al-Rish, under the auspices of Prof. Ayman Mahmoud Othman, Aswan university president, and Prof. Muhammad Zaki Al-Dahshoury, faculty of medicine’s dean, under the supervision of Prof. Mustafa Adam Al-Tiri, vice dean of education and students’ affairs, Dr. Hussein Mohamed Hussein, general coordinator for faculty of medicine’s students’ activities, Dr. Ahmed Abdel Sadiq, general coordinator of university student activities, Mr. Hatem Yousry Youssef, general director of youth care affairs, and the student Mansour Hashem Al-Maghazi, head of Aswan university’s students’ union.
Prof. Othman stressed on the importance of student initiatives and activities carried out by them to spread health awareness, in accordance with the university’s plan for activating student activities during the academic year under the auspices of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, minister of higher education and scientific research. His Excellency extended his thanks and appreciation to the dean of the faculty of engineering, who in turn helped the campaign team in Abu Al-Rish area and supported them, as well as to the students of the faculty of medicine for holding such an awareness campaign amid COVID-19 pandemic.
Prof. Al-Dahshoury added that as a part of student activities and introducing the symptoms of chronic diseases such as pressure and diabetes to university academic staff, their assistants, employees and students where faculty of medicine’s students checked up university students and distributed introductory publications where a number of (400) brochures were distributed in Sahary and (100) ones in Abu Al-Rish. The brochures aim to introduce the most important factors that may lead to high blood pressure, such as: obesity, genetic factors, smoking, laziness, organic imbalance, stress, as well as diabetes, which is a chronic disease that is a result of defect in the way cells receive insulin or the amount of insulin secreted by the pancreas, which leads to an abnormal increase or decrease in the level of sugar in blood.
At the end of the day, the students measured blood pressure for university president, for his part he took memorial photos with them to encourage them for holding more awareness campaigns.