Windhoek Digestive and Liver Disease center

03/12/2025

21/11/2025

🟠 Inflammation – the liver becomes swollen and painful
🔴 Scarring (Fibrosis) – repeated damage causes stiff tissue pre stage to cirrhosis
⚫ Cirrhosis – permanent liver damage that cannot be reversed and leads to death
❤️ Heart disease – fatty liver increases cholesterol and blood pressure
🧠 Brain effects – toxins build up and can affect thinking cause toredness and ultimately confusion

31/10/2025

November is colorectal cancer screening month. For anyone coming to screen, no copayments will be charged at our center!

31/10/2025

Liver cancer 2 ndry to hepatitis B usually presents when it is too late. With cancer screening we can pick up early cancers and also reduce your risk to get cancer with treatment. If you have hepatitis B , your family might be infected too and should get tested .

31/10/2025

Together, we’re driving progress in pancreatic cancer care across Europe. 🤝

Since the publication of the Pancreatic Cancer Across Europe Position Paper in May 2024, we have been working to turn its recommendations into tangible action.

Through awareness campaigns, policy engagement, research collaborations and new initiatives, the pancreatic cancer community continues to push forward – improving prevention, early detection, and care for patients across Europe. 🌍

📄 Read the Position Paper: https://bit.ly/3ymPpct
👉 Read the full update on what has been achieved so far and what lies ahead: https://bit.ly/3JzYNiC

Pancreatic Cancer Europe​ European Pancreatic Club - EPC​ Digestive Cancers Europe - for Patients​ Cancer Patients Europe - CPE​

16/10/2025

For our patients 70 years and older we have dropped copayments for endoscpy by 50%🌻

16/10/2025

For the month of November we will charge no copayments for cancer screening colonoscopy due to the increase of early onset colon cancer!

10/10/2025

Our diet is incredibly pro inflammatory and changes our microbiome to a less healthy one that can result in inflammatory diseases. Cooking at home is proven to be much healthier. Eating around a table as a family is proven to be even more healthy for mind and gut! Science is proving what we already know!

28/09/2025

Are you chronically tired?
Have you been diagnosed with iron deficiency and can’t get on top of it?
We correct iron deficiency with intravenous iron and investigate the cause at our center.

Gastroenterologists specializing in liver and gastrointestinal diseases. Clinic and Endoscopy Unit on site.