Prof. Ahmed El-Menshawi, Dean of Assiut University Faculty of Medicine, and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Assiut University Hospitals announced the success of 55 state sponsored corneal transplant surgeries. Dr. Menshawi indicates that this comes out of the University President's keen efforts to provide health care for all social layers, specially the unable classes. He added that steps have been already to legalize the establishment of a university bank for eyes to serve Upper Egyptian patients.