Ain Shams University conducts medical swab for all male and female university students

In an unprecedented step at the level of Egyptian universities, the education and student affairs sector at Ain Shams University conducted complete swabs for male and female students residing in the university cities sector (male and female students). The number of students amounted to 3285 male and female students, in cooperation between the General Administration of University Cities and the General Administration of Medical Affairs at Ain Shams University.

This procedure aims to ensure the safety of all students residing in university cities coinciding with the start of the first semester exams next week. The survey action plan comes in light of taking all precautionary measures and procedures, as swabs are made for small groups to avoid mixing between large numbers.

Where a complete survey began for all foreign students residing in university cities. Swabs were conducted for (41) immigrant students residing in the main city for female students in Heliopolis, and smears were conducted for (4) scholarship students residing in the university city, and (107) students. The expatriate students residing in the university city are students in Abbasia, due to the continued residence of foreign students in university cities since the beginning of the academic year and their not leaving until now, in order to ensure their safety before mixing with the rest of the Egyptian students who are scheduled to be resettled in the university cities in the coming days.

Today, Wednesday 24/2/2021, swabs will be made for students with special needs and the blind.

During the coming days, all University City students will have swabs done according to their housing schedules shortly before their exams to ensure that they are free of the (Covid-19) virus, in the interest of the administration for their safety and the safety of all workers at the place.

These measures come in a sense of the principle of responsibility on the part of the Ain Shams University administration towards its students, male and female students in the cities, to provide them with a suitable accommodation before the start of the exams and to provide all means of subsistence and all means of securing them in health, medical and academic terms, in continuation of what the current administration is adopting towards the safety of its sons, students and workers.