Advance notice:

November 22−24, 2012:

Symposium of the DTC in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Further Details soon.

Advance notice:

March 4−7, 2013:

12^th Cuban Surgery Congress in Havanna/Cuba

Symposium of the Latin-American Federation of Surgery

Leaflet for download

As president of the IFRS I want to express my very deep grief at the death of

Dr. Pascience Kibatala from Tanzania.

Organizing the International Symposium of DTC 2003 in Hamburg I met him first 2001 in Addis Abbeba at the ASEA annual meeting. As a rural surgeon in Ifakara he was very well aware of the enormous problems offering surgical care to the people in rural areas. He was dedicated to improve the circumstances of rural medical education and Ifakara was wellknown as an outstanding teaching hospital. 

From this time we met regularly, discussing how to improve health care for the poor and how to give an incentive to the native surgeons not to leave the country.