The pride of Egypt or the Arabs is not Mohamed Salah but rather Dr. Magdy Yacoub .. Sir Magdy Habib Yaacoub (born November 16, 1935 -) is an Egyptian-British professor, and a prominent heart surgeon.
Born in Bilbeis, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt, of a Coptic Orthodox family, and her origins are from Minya. He studied medicine at Cairo University, studied in Chicago, then moved to Britain in 1962 to work in London's Chest Hospital, then became a cardiologist and lung surgeon at Harfield Hospital (from 1969 to 2001), and director of the Department of Scientific Research and Education (since 1992). He was appointed professor at the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1986 and has been involved in developing techniques for heart transplant surgery since 1967.
In 1980 he performed heart transplantation to patient Drake Morris, who became the longest surviving European heart transplant patient until his death in July 2005. Among The celebrity he underwent was British comedian Eric Morecambe, who was awarded a knighthood in 1966 by Queen Elizabeth II, and in the British media he was dubbed the “King of Hearts.” When he was 65 years old he retired and continued as a consultant and theorist for organ transplants. In 2006 Dr. Majdi Yaqoub cut his retirement to lead a complex process that required the removal of a heart implanted in a patient after her normal heart had healed, as the normal heart of a diseased child was not removed during the previous transplant, by Sir Majdi Yaqoub.
He received a Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, and received honorary degrees and degrees from: Brunel University, Cardiff University, University of Loughborough, University of Middlesex (British universities), as well as from Lund University in Sweden. He has an honorary booklet at the University of Lahore, Pakistan, and the University of Siena, Italy.
In 1983, he performed a heart transplant for an Englishman named John McCaverty to enter, due to that surgery, the Guinness Book of Records as the longest living person with a transmitted heart, for 33 years until John died in 2016. He was awarded the British Pride Award on October 11, 2007, presented live on Channel ITV, in the presence of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, is awarded to people who have contributed various forms of courage and giving or who have contributed to social and local development. The jury decided that Dr. Jacob had performed more than 20 thousand heart operations in Britain, and had contributed to the work of a charitable association for children with heart disease in the developing world, and he is still working in the field of medical research; so he was chosen from the jury to be the prominent figure in the ceremony, The prize was awarded at the end of the ceremony, with dozens of people who, Dr. Yaqub, helped save their lives on stage.
Dr. Magdy Yacoub received the British Order of Merit for the year 2014 from Queen Elizabeth II of Britain.
The Grand Nile necklace
In Republican Decision No. 1 of 2011, former President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak ratified on January 6, 2011 the granting of Dr. “Magdy Habib Yaqoub” the Order of the Grand Nile Necklace for his abundant and sincere efforts in the field of cardiac surgery, and he received it himself at a special ceremony held in his honor.
A British medical team led by Dr. "Majdi Yaqoub" succeeded in developing a heart valve using stem cells, and this discovery will allow the use of parts of the heart that have been artificially cultivated within three years. Dr. Majdi Yaqoub says that within ten years a complete heart transplant will be reached using stem cells.
The medical team had succeeded in extracting stem cells from the bones, transplanting them and developing them into tissues that turned into valves for the heart. By placing these cells in a collagen environment, they formed into valves of the heart that reached a length of 3 centimeters.
Dr. Magdy Yacoub every time he visits Egypt, during which he performs many open heart operations free of charge. Dr. Magdy Yacoub established a heart operations center in Aswan, Upper Egypt, in 2009. A statue of him was established in Aswan and another in Belbeis in a field bearing his name in appreciation of his great role in the field of medicine.
In the end, thank you Magdy Yacoub for all his medicine
