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39 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS JULY 2016 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Participants The “Alfonso Gumucio Reyes” public hospital, located in the municipality of Montero (Santa Cruz), was selected as the Community Health Program as a part of the XII International Course on Advances in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy. There were 80 health professionals (including physi-cians, surgeons, nurses, social workers, and technicians), all of whom were volunteers committed to the health needs of people of low resources and less attention in terms of medium and high complexity of digestive diseases. A total of 131 patients suffering of di-gestive diseases attended the hospital over two days. As part of the program, organizers installed in the Hospital of Montero equipment for ultrasound, endoscopy, laparoscopic surgery, and transient elastography. This was the first time that transient elastography equipment was installed in Bolivia for the evalua-tion of chronic liver diseases. The Bolivian Association of Sovereign Military and Hospitalary Order of Malta provided medicines and other supplies in order to assure that treatments were totally covered for patients, in consideration of the social and economic conditions of the Montero population. Considering the impact of the educational, training, and social ac-tion programs that the WGO La Paz Training Center has carried out since 2005 for benefit of young specialists in Latin America and populations of low access to health treatment, we believe that the program must con-tinue in the future focused in the new generation of specialists and principles that the World Gastroenterology Or-ganisation has defined for the Training Centers program.   Participants Without Scholarship Participants With Scholar-ship and Professors Total Attendees La Paz 123 80 203 Santa Cruz 21 72 93 Montero 100 104 TOTAL 400


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