Kasr Al Aini Hospital
Faculty of Medicine Kasr El Aini Hospital
Kasr Al Ainy Hospital (Arabic: مستشفى قصر العينى) is a research and teaching hospital in Cairo, Egypt. This hospital is affiliated with the Cairo University Faculty of Medicine. The hospital was founded on March 11, 1827.
History
In 1827, a medical school was established and attached to a military hospital in Abu Zaabal. The French doctor Antoine Clot Bey (Antoine Clot) became the first director of the medical school and hospital.
In 1837, the medical school and hospital were moved to Qasr El Eyni Street in Cairo. The hospital was renamed as "Kasr Al Ainy hospital".
In 1838, The first school for midwifery was established in Kasr Al Ainy Hospital.
In 1848, Clot Bey resigned and went back to France.
In 1850, Abbas I appointed Wilhelm Griesinger as the director.
In 1851, Griesinger's assistant Theodor Bilharz discovered the first known blood flukes, Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma mansoni, and with it the disease bilharzia (schistosomiasis).
In 1855, Clot Bey was re-appointed director of medical school and Kasr Al Ainy Hospital.
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