The Trocar Open Access Journal – 12/2022

I am pleased to present you a very interesting issue of our magazine at the end of the year. The ISGE was already founded as a teaching community and has felt committed to the needs of the less developed regions of the world in recent decades and has lived it. Our last regional meeting in Cameroon focused on the needs of regions with limited material resources. We are very pleased to have colleagues on board who come from these regions and can formulate exactly what the real needs are. More than 60% of the world’s population does not have access to adequate surgical care, and we must be aware of this when we talk about high-tech medicine on the one hand and global teaching on the other. It is important that we adapt to the possibilities of the respective regions of the world and not the other way around. Technological adjustments are also required. Medical products and medical technology are mainly developed in the so-called industrialized countries and marketed worldwide. Due to European or American regulations, these tools and products are not affordable in low-income countries or benefit only a small group of wealthy people. Therefore, local medical production, technical maintenance facilities and the use of local know-how are also required. Article 4 deals precisely with this important perspective.

In this issue (issue 4 volume 3) we have included articles from Africa, South and Central America, New Zealand, Europe and China. The development and focus of our journal is certainly one of the highlights of ISGE, in addition to the continuous development of our programs. We hope that in the new year
numerous endoscopic societies will join us and the number of people who support our project will grow steadily. In a very turbulent time of international crises, wars and climate catastrophes, it is conciliatory that many physicians are working together on a global project. Join us and become a member of ISGE or encourage your local endoscopy societies to work with ISGE.

We wish you a happy new year and continued enjoyment of medicine!

For editor

Günter Noé
Editor in Chief
President ISGE