Professor Naguib Pasha Mahfouz

Naguib Mikhail Mahfouz was an Egyptian pioneer in Obstetric fistula and is also known as the father of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Egypt.

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Egypt - Pioneer - Obstetric fistula - Obstetrics - Gynaecology

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He was born on the January 5, 1882 in the city of Mansoura in the delta of Egypt. He entered Kasr El Aini Medical School in 1898 where teaching was predominantly undertaken by eminent European Professors. Of particular relevance is the fact that at this time, Kasr El Aini hospital had no department of obstetrics and gynaecology and that the only case of labour that he attended "ended fatally for both mother and child". In June 1902 and as he was about to take his final year exams, there was an outbreak of cholera in Egypt and medical students were recruited to help combat the epidemic. The medical school was closed and exams postponed.

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January 5 - 1882 - Mansoura - Egypt

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