Zamalek club president Mortada Mansour decided to grant Dr. Magdy Yaqoub the honorary membership of the Zamalek Club, in recognition of his great efforts in the medical world, a few days after the president of the club granted honorary membership to the "Doctor of the Overwhelming" Dr. Mohamed Mashaly.
And Dr. Majdi Yaqoub was honored last February in the Makers of Hope Initiative 3, and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, announced during the initiative to monitor the proceeds of the closing ceremony of the Hope Makers Initiative in favor of the project to build the Majdi Yaqoub Charity Hospital For the treatment of heart diseases in Egypt, which will provide free treatment and perform more than 12,000 surgeries annually for heart patients in the Arab world, specifically the children for whom the new hospital will allocate 70% of its operations to them without charge.
Dr. Magdy Yacoub is an Egyptian professor and prominent heart surgeon. Born in Belbeis City, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt, and originally from Minya, he studied medicine at Cairo University, and he studied in Chicago, then moved to Britain in 1962 to work in the chest hospital in London and then became a specialist in heart and lung surgery at Harvald Hospital (from 1969 to 2001 The director of the Department of Scientific Research and Education (since 1992) was appointed professor at the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1986 and interested in developing techniques for heart transplant surgeries since 1976 in 1980 he performed a heart transplant to the patient Drake Morris who became the longest operation for a European surviving heart transplant patient Until his death in July 2005, one of the celebrities he had undergone was the British Eric Morecambe, who was given the title of Knight by Queen Elizabeth II, and in 1966 he was called in the British media the title "King of Hearts.
" Honorary Zamalek in appreciation of what it offers in the world of medicine and treatment of patients. "