On Monday 11th November London’s Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic partnership with Ain Shams University Hospital, one of the largest educational medical institutions in Africa and the Middle East.
Under the agreement, Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals will prepare and deliver a service review and development plan for a heart and lung surgery service to be set up at Ain Shams University Hospital, as well as to conduct joint research.
The aim of the strategic partnership is to promote training, clinical practice and research to enhance and empower clinical programmes at Ain Shams. This service review will specifically aim to develop and deliver an exceptional and sustainable aortic surgery service at Ain Shams.
Employing a multidisciplinary approach with clinical care, education and research excellence at its core, the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals’ team will work with their Ain Shams partners to develop a world-class heart and lung service at the Hospital.
A delegation of senior British physicians and clinical managers from Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals arrived in Egypt for a visit this week to sign the joint research agreement and commence the first stages of the partnership.
British Ambassador to Egypt Sir Geoffrey Adams stated: “I am delighted that Ain Shams University Hospital is partnering with Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, which together form the largest heart and lung centre in the UK and one of the best in the world. This agreement will enable two outstanding institutions to join forces in delivering world-class cardiac service to Egyptian citizens.”
Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Managing Director of Private Patients, Mr David Shrimpton, said: “Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals are looking forward to working with colleagues at Ain Shams University Hospital to build upon their specialised cardiac services. We look forward to a successful partnership between our two institutions and hope this can lead to further productive collaborations in the future.”
Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals cardiac surgeon, Professor John Pepper, OBE, said: “We are delighted to collaborate with our Ain Shams colleagues in order to provide the very best in specialist cardiac services to the people of Egypt.”