The 48th World Congress of Surgery (WCS), formerly known as the International Surgical Week (ISW), will take place this week at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre. The organisers of the event – the International Society of Surgery (ISS) / Société Internationale de Chirurgie (SIC – estimate that the event will attract more than 2500 attendees from Poland and abroad.

Congress took place in Krakow, on June 2-5, 2019. Almost 400 delegates from 133 cities and 57 countries came to Krakow, also hosted 76 presidents and mayors representing almost all continents: Africa, both Americas, Asia, Australia and Oceania and – Europe. Mr. Jacek Majchrowski is the new President of the OWHC.