Dr. Tarek El Gammal, President of Assiut University, emphasized that the university is witnessing a major surge in the medical services provided by its university hospitals. This came during his participation in the opening of the proceedings of the Fifth International Surgical Thoracic Surgery Workshop, which was organized by the Chest Surgery Unit at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. The workshop, entitled "Chest Surgery from the Stone Age to the Space Age" with the slogan "Butterfly," lasted for two days, in the presence of distinguished professors of heart and chest surgery from the universities of China, England, Turkey, Greece, Mansoura, Alexandria, Ain Shams and Assiut as well as 70 trainees from Spain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and various governorates of Egypt.