40 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 WGO Nairobi Training Center Inauguration & Training Workshop Report Elly Otieno Ogutu, MD Director, WGO Nairobi Training Center Consultant Gastroenterologist, Department of Clinical Medicine & Therapeutics, University of Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya The inauguration of the WGO Nairobi Training Center took place 6 May at the Kenyatta National Hospital. This was part of a training program that ran 5-7 May at both the Nairobi Training Center (situated at the Kenyatta National Hospital) and the Radisson Blu Hotel, which is in the neighborhood of the hospital. The center was officially opened by a representative for the Kenyan Health Cabinet Secretary, along with: the World Gastroenterology Organ-isation (WGO) President, Professor David Bjorkman; the Chief Execu-tive Officer (CEO) of the Kenyatta National Hospital, Lily Koros Tare; the Gastroenterology Society of Kenya President, Dr. Henry Kioko; and a representative for the Principal of Kenyatta National Hospital’s College of Health Sciences. Professor Nageshwar Reddy, President of the World Endoscopy Organization, was also in attendance, along with other international faculty from Canada, UK, India, and other African countries. Other international faculty included Professor Bjorkman, Dr. Olufunmilayo Lesi (Director, WGO Lagos Training Center, Lagos, Nigeria), Dr. Hugget Mathew (Leeds Teaching Hospital, Leeds, UK), Dr. Amit Maydeo (Baldota Institute of Digestive Sciences, Mumbai, India), Dr. Ponsiano Ocama (Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda), Dr. Anand Ramamurthy (Apollo Hospi-tals, Chennai, Indai), and Dr. Morris Sherman (Chairman, Canadian Viral Hepatitis Network, and President, Canadian Association for Study of the Liver). A total of 150 people were in attendance at the function, including delegates from 11 countries. The CEO of the Kenyatta National Hospital welcomed Professor Bjork-man, the representative of the Cabinet Secretary, and their team at her boardroom, where introductions were Director of the Nairobi Training Center, Prof. Elly Ogutu. Inauguration workshop program at the Radison Hotel. done and photos taken after signing the visitor’s book. There were two plaques, one from WGO and a second indicating that the center was inaugurated by the Health Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Cleopa Mailu. The guests were then seated in one of the rooms in the unit and a live transmission from the Training Center was done to officially simulate a run-ning center. Speeches were given by: the Direc-tor of the Training Center, Dr. Elly Ogutu; the President of Gastroen-terology Society of Kenya; the CEO of Kenyatta National Hospital; the President of WGO; and the represen-tative of the Kenyan Health Cabinet Secretary. The speeches spelled out the im-portance of having a gastroenterology training center in the region, as there is a great deficit in skilled personnel in the specialty. Kenya has a popula-tion of 40 million people being served by less than 30 gastroenterologists at different level of expertise. The situa-tion is worse in some countries in the region. The guests were entertained by the hospital choir and thereafter the func-tion closed with prayers. The Training Center inauguration was part of a very successful two and a half day training workshop. The
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