The IGBJ hosts the La Paz WGO Training Center since 2005 and represents the executing institution of international training programs.

The IGBJ is the result of the health cooperation that the Japan government lend to Bolivia. It is a public Institution as well as university with 30 years of assistance, investigative and educational activity, in pre levels, graduate and postgraduate degree.

The IGBJ is equipped with high technology for attention of digestive illnesses, with advanced development of technical diagnosis and treatment, and endowed with appropriate infrastructure for the development of training programs.

It has integrated services of medical clinic, surgery, pathology, diagnostic radiology and interventionist, diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopies, diagnostic ecography and interventionist, ultrasound endoscopies, motility and pHmetry.