Minister of Higher Education, Dr Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, has placed the honorary memorial stone to inaugurate the project of establishing an new university hospitals for the treatment of Tumors. On his part, Dr. Ahmed A. Gaeis, Assiut University has indicated that the hospital is intended to be built and equipped according to the most recent world medical systems to suffice the ever increasing numbers of patients which exceed 40 thousand patients annually. He added that the University has specified an area of about 10 thousands square meters for the project.