Sunday 16 December 2007

28) City of the Feira: Dentists give free support to young

About three dozen young people of the county of Santa Maria da Feira already benefited from the support of free dental medicine under the "Service Anchor", the project Rights & Challenges, and that part is already over the treatment, and now, 17 users they are still in service, shows the Board of the Feira.
The list of waiting has some of 30 youths and adults enrolled. To support the implementation of this free at the level of dental medicine, the project Rights & Challenges established protocols of cooperation with three medical dentists who are making a dental treatment in young indicated by institutions / projects of social intervention of the county. Through these protocols, the "Service Anchor" provides the necessary materials and dentists offer their services.
Considering the magnitude of the problem of dental cariogenic of many children and young people at risk social and economic difficulties in their families minimize it, the Rights & Challenges calls to other doctors dentists of the county to join this project, contributing thus, for the physical well-being and self-esteem of many children and young people of the county.
The "Service Anchor" intended as a response to social emergency for the families of the county of Santa Maria da Feira showing persistent poverty, enabling an immediate response to situations of high risk, which forms the support level of dental medicine. This service will also with a resource center for Health, with articles for the rehabilitation and continuing care, which are assigned as a loan to needy families, and the institutions that carry out work in this area.
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An example of what must be done to the municipal level. This is also my contribution to the dissemination of this initiative.
Gerofil

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