Faculty of Pharmacy organized a course of First Aid and under the auspices of Prof. Moustafa Kamal, the President of Assiut University, and Prof. Jamal Ahmed Saleh, the Faculty's Dean. The symposium comes in the framework of the faculty's activities in community service and environment development. The symposium emphasized the importance of the pharmacist aware of the importance of first aid in field work as well as a citizen to serve himself and society around him. The session included three lectures on the principles of first aid, first aid for injuries of the kinetic system, first aid for wounds, bleeding and burns. The Participants in the seminar included staff members of faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, who insisted during the session on the need to raise awareness of the importance of a bag for first aid within each house.