The Faculty of Pharmacy at the British University in Egypt (BUE) launched a campaign to manufacture sterilizers, disinfectants, and chlorine for free distribution, in order to reduce the spread of the new Coronavirus.
The campaign comes with the support of Mohammad Farid Khamis, the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the British University, to contribute to keeping the health of workers and citizens, as well as to implement the country's plan for combating the virus after the shortage of these products in the markets, which led to the rise of their prices during the last period.
Dr. Ahmad Hamad, the president of BUE asserted that the institution plays a societal role toward the crisis of the spread of Coronavirus inside Egypt, adding that the university has taken a set of strict measures to preserve the safety of students and employees, in addition to launching awareness campaigns to prevent the infection of Coronavirus. The College of Pharmacy manufactures materials and distributes them for free.
Hamad said that this period that the world and Egypt are witnessing now due to the spread of Coronavirus - which was classified by the World Health Organization as a world pandemic - is considered a difficult period.
"It requires the concerted efforts of all, and every one of us must bear the responsibility so that we can overcome the crisis with the least possible damage, praising the measures and efforts made by the Egyptian government to besiege this pandemic and limit its spread among citizens," Hamad said.
On the other hand, Dr. Rania Yahya, a faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutics, said: "The university has provided raw materials for the manufacture of sterilizers and disinfectants, and we have manufactured and distributed them for free."
Yahya added that the team worked on manufacturing sterilized jelly with 70% alcohol because it is better than the sterilized spray, and we distributed it for free, whether to university employees or citizens.
She said: "We also manufactured raw chlorine in college laboratories at a very simple cost, and it is used in the disinfection campaign carried out by the university," noting that this mission that it undertook in cooperation with the university team is a message to the community.
"We are all partners in the ordeal and we have to work together to get out of it," she said.
Contributed by Wafaa Fayez
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