CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Endosc Int Open 2021; 09(07): E1001-E1003 DOI: 10.1055/a-1495-5215
Editorial
Promotion of gastrointestinal endoscopy in Sub-Saharan Africa: What is needed, and
how can ESGE and WEO help?
Authors
Purnima Bhat
1
ANU Medical School/Canberra Hospital – Gastroenterology, Garran, Australia. Committee
member and Research Lead of Activities to Reach Africa – World Endoscopy Organization
Cesare Hassan
2
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
3
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
4
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
