The first veterinary medical faculty was founded in Rashid in 1827 and relocated to Abi Zaabal in 1831. It was shut down in 1881 as a result of the financial crisis. Then, in 1901, it was decided to open a veterinary school in Cairo that would be connected to the Ministry of Interior’s Health Authority.
The study period was three years, then it became four years. In 1905, and in 1914 the school joined the Department of Agriculture, to join in 1923 the Ministry of Education. Given the importance of veterinary medicine and the agricultural and industrial development that Egypt is witnessing in the modern era, many faculties of veterinary medicine have been established in Egyptian public, private, and private universities. Such as Cairo University, Benha, Mansoura, Alexandria, Zagazig, Suez Canal, Qena, Sadat, Beni Suef, Kafr El Sheikh, Minya, Assiut, South Valley, Sohag, Damanhour, Aswan, Arish, Ain Shams, King Salman, and Badr University.
The faculty is characterized by the diversity of its fields of work due to the diversity of its departments and specializations. Each specialization provides the opportunity to penetrate the labor market. For example, the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, Clinical Pathology, and Virology are available for them to work in veterinary and human analysis laboratories. As for the departments of internal medicine, surgery, and childbirth in veterinary clinics and hospitals, as for specialists in health control over food, they work in the ministries of Health and Agriculture, the Food Safety Authority, veterinary ports and quarries, hotels, airlines, and tourist facilities. and research centers.
Hence, I direct my message to the graduates of the college who annually join the family of veterinary medicine in our beloved Egypt. Be up to your responsibility, as you are ambassadors for your college and your university in performing your work for the sake of advancing your human profession in the first place, in addition to providing safe food of animal origin for every individual on the land of Egypt. I am also pleased to invite you to continuous contact with your college and professors and to resume postgraduate studies based on the horizons of the future that depend on science and knowledge.
May God bless you and guide your steps.
Prof. Aasim Mohamed Zakaria
Director of the Quality Assurance Unit and Head of the Food Control Department in the Faculty