Promotion of gastrointestinal endoscopy in Sub-Saharan Africa: What is needed, and how can ESGE and WEO help?

• Purnima Bhat,
• Cesare Hassan,
• Hailemichael Desalegn,
• Lars Aabakken

Affiliations

Purnima Bhat

ANU Medical School/Canberra Hospital – Gastroenterology, Garran, Australia. Committee member and Research Lead of Activities to Reach Africa – World Endoscopy Organization

Cesare Hassan

Gastroenterology Unit, Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital, Rome, Italy. Chair of the International Affairs Working Group – European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; Committee member of Activities to Reach Africa – World Endoscopy Organization

Hailemichael Desalegn

Department of Internal Medicine, St. Paulʼs Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Committee member of Activities to Reach Africa – World Endoscopy Organization

Lars Aabakken

Department of Transplantation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oslo University Hospital – Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway. Co-chair of the Committee of Activities to Reach Africa – World Endoscopy Organization