KIDS' MEDICAL CLUB
Here
MADE
IN BSSS.
AN OVERVIEW FOR SOME OF THE BIG PROJECTS HELD
OUT BY BSSS BENHA.
SAFE LIVER
I'd
like to say that it always gets me
inspired when I hear the word
"SCOPH" — Standing Committee on Public
Health — It's not very often that you see
someone working hard for the subjects
related to our community medical care by
providing awareness to the public about
the current state of global health issues.
As a matter of fact and as you all know,
nowadays Egypt has the highest number
of Hepatitis C patients in all countries.
Therefore, it was SCOPH's duty to have
a word regarding this statistic. It was
essential to grab the people's attention
and tell them "Safe Liver", but this
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we have a child of 10 years
old who is still studying in
primary school, but the question is: Have
you ever thought that this child might
be the reason to stop your bleeding?
Have you ever thought that this child
might be your lifesaver while you're
choking because of a food bolus
that entered your respiratory tract?
Have you ever thought that this child
may give you a second chance to
live if you're caught in electricity?
This is what is "Kids' Medical
Club"
project
made
for.
Kids' Medical Club is the most beloved
project in SCOME — Standing Committee
om Medical Education — and BSSS as
well. It targets the children in schools
trying to get them oriented by the
topics related to First Aid measures
and Public Health issues in a way that
is very simple to suit t heir IQ level.
Relying on the fact that when we were
young, we loved learning practically
more than theoretically, we came up
with an idea to initiate this project in the
term 2015-2014 and after one year it
reached a very high extent of success
and its real impact qualified it to become
an IFMSA-Egypt representative in the
Project Presentation Competition among
all the countries in the March Meeting of
IFMSA in Malta 2015 and it deserved to
win the 2nd place in this competition.
These children are provided with sessions
conducted by medical students who
are well-trained to deal with kids and
well-oriented by the presented topics.
Kids' Medical Club always attracts all
BSSS members and even non-members
admire it too. It's been a new method
to produce individuals to the society
who know how to protect themselves
and the others in emergency cases.
PINK OCTOBER
October
in a pinky way…
It is an idea that
has come out of the great, passionate,
and always firing SCORAngels as a new
creative way for supporting our dear
breast cancer fighters. The idea is about
choosing a day on October —which is
the international month for the breast
cancer— and trying to paint everything
in our faculty in pink which is the color
representing breast cancer awareness.
On that day, we have tried to be pinky
angels spreading awareness all over the
faculty. We have used pink balloons,
ribbons, and paintings. In addition, we
have taught the students how to make
the monthly examination for themselves,
we have managed to reach a lot of
students. Also, some doctors decided to
share us our event by wearing pink and
taking part in our campaign. It wasn't
only about our faculty but we have made
an online event in order to reach the
fighters all over the world and it was
great to have posts on our event from the
cancer fighters themselves in addition
to supporting posts from people all
over Egypt and some celebrities share
us their supporting emotions. Certainly,
It is great to feel supporting somebody
in their own fight through this life.
DONATE BLOOD… SAVE LIVES
time it is going to be in BSSS manner. It's not only limited to the public. We
want to protect the public as well as the
"Safe Liver" is considered one of the doctors. As a result, vaccination is another
biggest projects within BSSS lifetime at all. milestone in this project to immunize our
It's actually the landmark of SCOPH, that doctors against HBV virus. Yearly, BSSS is
aims to set a barrier between Egyptians approached by many doctors and interns
and all types of Hepatitis viruses "HAV, asking for this vaccine and this process
HBV, HCV, HDV & HEV". This high number is all done by the SCOPHeroes who are
of liver patients, that I mentioned above, registering, organizing and injecting too.
comes as a result of people's blindness All in all, "Safe Liver" has become
to see the ways of transmission of the just like a corporate identity for BSSS.
disease or how to prevent themselves
from getting infected. Thus, our
members are initiating campaigns to
fight for people's orientation about it.
Blood,
the gift of life that runs
through our veins.
Most of the people do not recognize the
value of their blood and do not know
that some lives are bound by a small
amount of it. As we, in SCORP, believe in
the importance of blood donation, we’ve
made an event especially for the Blood
Donation. The Blood Donation Campaign
is one of the greatest humanitarian
activities in SCORP that aims not only to
collect blood bags to fulfill the hospitals'
needs but also to spread awareness
about the importance of blood donation
and embed the donation culture in the
MISCELLANEOUS
society. Each campaign has several
phases that begin with an online
campaign aiming to spread awareness
about blood donation and all sorts
of information about the donation,
the requirements need in a donor, its
importance, and the blood transfusion-
transmitted diseases. Afterward, comes
the physical campaign in which we aim to
collect blood bags from donor to provide
the needing hospitals with. This year in
just the first semester we’ve collected 90
blood bags in Benha Faculty of medicine
and 83 in Benha Faculty of Computing
and Information in cooperation with
University’s Hospital Blood Bank and the
Central Blood Bank of Asneet, and in the
last year they were 100 bags in 3 different
faculties in Benha University; Education,
Engineering, and Law. In the year before,
we’ve reached over 180 bags in 3 different
Faculties in Benha University; Medicine,
Science, and Engineering. The physical
campaigns are not limited to collecting
blood bags only but also we have, in
each campaign, awareness individuals
to spread the awareness to ensure that
it reach as many people as possible.
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