Dr. Mostafa Al-Sharqawy, Dean of South Egypt Cancer Institute, Assiut University stated that three new endoscopic units have already started operation to raise the level of medical service and meet the needs of huge numbers of patients arriving from various upper Egyptian governments. Dr. Sharqawy indicated that the new units included: one surgical endoscopy costing LE. 2.600.000 (two million six hundred thousand Egyptian Pounds); diagnostic endoscopy unit costing LE. 1.500.000 (one million and five hundred thousand Egyptian Pounds); and urological endoscopy unit costing LE. 150.000 (hundred and fifty thousand Egyptian Pound)