Dentaid provides dental help to South Sudan refugees
NewsPosted by: Dental Design 26th March 2018
Dentaid have provided dental treatment and oral health education programmes for refugees from South Sudan, living on the northern Ugandan border.
Due to the money raised as part of it’s Christmas fundraising appeal, Dentaid was able to travel, alongside Ugandan associates, to Mijale in Yumbe District. The 10 camps the refugees are housed in have basic medical facilities but no access to dental care.
Oral health education sessions and screening and treatment clinics were ran by Dentaid’s Ugandan associate, Angel Nsubuga.
“The district has no dental facility at all which means that there is no dentist in the whole area,” said Dr Nsubuga. “People have a series of dental problems that means they resort to traditional healers and as a result there’s chronic pain and complications. We offered different treatments to the community – teeth that could still be saved were conserved with ART and grossly carious teeth were extracted under local anaesthesia.”
The refugees also had the opportunity to learn about tooth brushing, dental diseases and causes of tooth decay.
Further dental services in the refugee camps are in the pipeline and Dentaid will continue fundraising to continue helping.
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