Uniting the global gastroenterology community to meet the challenge of climate change and non-recyclable waste
Gut
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2021 Nov;70(11):2025-2029.
doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2021-325789.
Authors
Desmond Leddin
1
,
M Bishr Omary
2
,
Andrew Veitch
3
,
Geoffrey Metz
4
,
Naima Amrani
5
,
Lars Aabakken
6
,
Raja Affendi Raja Ali
7
,
Mario Reis Alvares-Da-Silva
8
,
David Armstrong
9
,
Sedat Boyacioglu
10
,
Ye Chen
11
,
Reda Elwakil
12
,
Kwong-Ming Fock
13
,
Saeed S Hamid
14
,
Govind Makharia
15
,
Finlay Macrae
16
,
Reza Malekzadeh
17
,
Chris J Mulder
18
,
Alejandro Piscoya
19
,
Mai Ling Perman
20
,
Anahita Sadeghi
17
,
Roque Saenz
21
,
Jean-Christophe Saurin
22
,
Amna Subhan Butt
14
,
Kaichun Wu
23
,
Yeong Yeh Lee
24
Affiliations
1
Gastroenterology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Desmond.Leddin@dal.ca.
2
Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Camden, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
3
Gastroenterology, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK.
4
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
5
Mohammed V University of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco.
6
Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
7
National University of Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
8
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
9
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
10
Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey.
11
Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
12
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
13
Duke-NUS Medical School and Changi General Hospital, Singapore.
14
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
15
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
16
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
17
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
18
Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
19
Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, La Molina, Peru.
20
Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji.
21
Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
22
Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France.
23
Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Xi'an, China.
24
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
PMID:
34620696
DOI:
10.1136/gutjnl-2021-325789
No abstract available
Keywords:
gastroscopy.
MeSH terms
Climate Change*
Conservation of Natural Resources*
Gastroenterology / organization & administration*
Global Health
Humans
Medical Waste*
Substances
Medical Waste