Engineer Yasser El-Desouky, Governor of Assiut asserted the Governorate's activation of the joint protocol of cooperation between Assiut University Hospitals represented by the Chest Department and the Ministry of Health for the development of the Chest Hospital with an average cost exceeding one million and a half million Egyptian Pounds. This protocol tends to benefit from the academic expertise and medical potentials of the university for the sake of chest patients. The Governor's announcement of the protocol was indicated in his speech during the opening session of the fifth annual conference organized by the Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University on the "Frequently Asked Questions in Pulmonary Medicine," from 8 -11 March.