History 197 Years
kasralainy school of Medicine,Is the earliest school of medicine in the egypt and middle east.it was the continuation of abu zaabal military hospital established in 1827 by mohamed ali bashaa ruler of egypt with the aid of french doctor antoine clot beck
kasralainy school of Medicine,Is the earliest school of medicine in the egypt and middle east.it was the continuation of abu zaabal military hospital established in 1827 by mohamed ali bashaa ruler of egypt with the aid of french doctor antoine clot beck
It was out a Desire for expansion, that the School of Medicine was moved from Abou Zaabal to Kasr El-Aini at 1837. This new site was preferred not only because it could accommodate 1,500 beds and 300 students, but also because it was situated in the heart of Cairo, compared to Abou Zaabal, which lies oil the outskirts of the Egyptian capital. At present, Kasr El-Aini is so well known that its name is taken for granted. Nobody even attempts to think of how it acquired this name. In fact, it takes its name from the influential man who built it in the J5th century as a palace to live in, El-Mokerr El-Shehabi Ahmed Ibn El-Aini. It then became a hotel for kings and princes, and remained so until the French Occupation of Egypt transformed it into a military hospital.
The Viceroy Mohamed Aly finally granted him the handsome college of Kasr El-Aini. It was located between Old Cairo and the populated district off Boulac, facing the splendid island of Rodah, covered with gardens. It is to these vast buildings, that Dr. Clot Bey transferred the School and hospital of Abu Zaabal in the winter of 1837.
The new hospital was set up to accommodate one thousand five hundred patients as well as three hundred students.
A great number of students that had entered the school later bore the fruit of their learning to various countries of the East. In Kasralainy, they found a rich library, a museum for natural history, and laboratories for physics and chemistry. The hospital, equipped with its dormitories and refectories, was like the best hospitals of Europe. Kasralainy joined Cairo University with its establishment in 1908 as Faculty of Medicine.
Dr. Ali Pasha Ibrahim the first Egyptian dean of school and a great surgeon dreamt of further expansion of the school on Al Roda Island opposite to Al Ainy Palace and convinced King Fouad I to grant him the land on which he was building a palace for his son Prince Farouk. And despite the global economic depression at that time, he was granted the funds to build one of the largest hospitals in the world thanks to his great advocacy.
