15 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS NOVEMBER 2016 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Umesh Jalihal and Prashanth B N. Dr. G N Prabhakara, Presi-dent, Indian Medical Association, Karnataka State Branch and Mr. G.Seetharam, Secretary, Sarvodaya Education Society inaugurated the session in presence of Mr. Subba Rao, Mr. Nagaraj Rao, Head Master, Dr. Thyagaraj,President IMA,Tumkur, Dr. Bhusan, Secretary,IMA, Tumkur and Cr Savitha Bharateesha, Chair-person, Area 6, Ladies Circle In-dia. Students and teachers participated enthusiastically during this episode, indicating their inspiration and fasci-nation provided by the program! 2nd Day Event on 28 May 2016: There was an expert panel discussion on “Diet and The Gut” by Dr. Naresh Bhat, Senior Gastroenterologist & Chief of GI Services, Aster CMI Hospital, Bangalore, Dr. Rajkumar P. Wadhwa, Chief Gastroenterologist, Vikram Jyoth Advanced Centre for Hepatobilliary & Pancreatic Disor-ders, Mysore and Dr. Amit Yelsangi-kar, Gastroenterologist & GI Oncol-ogy, Aster CMI Hospital, Bangalore at the Indian Medical Association Auditorium. Dr. Prashanth B N, Consultant Gastrointestinal Interven-tional Endoscopist, Chaitanyaa Gastro Intestinal Care & Endoscopy Centre, Tumkur highlighted the importance of World Digestive Health Day, it history of how and when it began. The WDHD began as a commemora-tion of the 45th anniversary of the creation of the World Gastroenterol-ogy Organisation (WGO) on 29 May 1958. This was the last day of the First World Congress of Gastroenterol-ogy, which took place in Washington, DC, USA. WDHD was inaugurated in 2004 and first held in 2005. He also mentioned the WDHD’s aim to raise public awareness of prevention and treatment of common digestive disorders. Each year focuses upon a particular digestive disorder in order to increase general public awareness of prevention and therapy. After the panel discussion there was good interaction from the local doctors’ fraternity, with 85 doctors of Tumkur district participating. Dr. G. N. Prabhakara, President, Indian Medical Association, Karnataka State chapter inaugurated this program in presence of Dr. Thyagaraj.T.V, President, IMA Tumkur and Dr. KPS Bhusan, Secretary,IMA, Tumkur. 3rd Day Event on 29 May 2016: All local newspapers carried the article on Diet and The Gut for awareness to the general public in the local Kan-nada language. Walk-A-Thon to create awareness to the gen-eral public on Diet and The Gut Panel Discussion to Doctors on Diet and The Gut. There was also a Walk-A-Thon to celebrate WDHD and to spread awareness to the general public. It started at 07:00 flagged off by His ho-liness Dr. Sri Sri Veereshananda Saras-wathi Swamiji, President, Ramak-rishna Vivekananda Ashrama, Tumkur in presence of Mr. S. Naganna, Chief Editor, Prajapragathi newspaper, Tum-kur, Dr. B.N.Nirvani Rao, Patron, and Senior surgeon, Tumkur and Dr. G N Prabhakara, President, IMA Karnataka state branch. Despite the rain, 850 people participated! The final event was a televised program on Pragathi TV at 11:30 by a panel of doctors which included Dr. Rajkumar Wadwa, Chief Gastroen-terologist, Vikram Jyoth, Advanced Center for Hepatobilliary & Pancre-atic Disorders, Mysore, Dr. Prashanth B N, Consultant Gastrointestinal In-terventional Endoscopist, Chaitanyaa Gastro Intestinal Care & Endoscopy Center, Tumkur and Dr. Lokesh.L.V, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Ra-maiah Medical College, Bangalore. Special thanks to Namitha Smruthi Rajasekhar and Khushii Prashanth M for helping in writing this article. A TV program by a panel of Doctors on Pra-gathi TV talking about Diet and The Gut. Awareness program at Chetnana School
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