Assiut University President, Prof. Dr. Tarek El-Gammal, emphasized the university's keenness to provide all possible support and overcome the obstacles that may face pharmacists in university hospitals, praising the pharmacist's role in the vital health service inside the hospitals as well as his/her clinical role in giving the appropriate treatment, which reflects the noble role of the pharmacist in medical care that matches the role of the physician, in addition to the pharmacist's role in the development and innovation of the pharmaceutical industry to relieve the pain of patients . This came during the opening of the Second Annual Conference of Pharmacists of University Hospitals. The conference, entitled "Improving the health of the patient and what the pharmacist needs to know," was organized by Assiut University Hospitals in cooperation with the South Egypt Cancer Institute, under the auspices of General Gamal Nour El Din Mohamed Zaki, governor of Assiut ; Eng. Abdel-Aal deputy governor; Dr. Sami Abdul Rahman , Dean of the South Egypt Cancer Institute; Dr. Hassan Abdel Latif , Vice chairman of university hospitals; Dr. Abdel – Aleem, chairman of the Central administration of medical and therapeutic affairs of the main hospital; Dr. Mohamed Zain, Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs Directorate in Assiut; Dr. Alaa Arafat, head of the Egyptian Pharmacists Syndicate in Assiut; Dr. Siham Abdul Latif , President of the Conference, as well as the participation of a group of faculty members at the Faculty of Pharmacy and a number of pharmacists from the university hospitals, the Institute of South Egypt Cancer, and the hospitals affiliated to the Ministry of Health.