The Oral Health Program - the responsibility of the Regional Secretariat for Social Affairs - will cover, from this year, the county of Funchal, the only municipality that was not covered by the initiative. Three thousand and 774 students from 183 classes from pre-school that will be, from now on, use of dental care. The first phase, already started in October, will cover only the pre-school but the intention is to then lead the project to the first cycle. These data were made available to the Jornal da Madeira, the Regional Secretariat for Social Affairs.
The regional secretary, Francisco Jardim Ramos stressed the importance of this program that will cover about 20 thousand students from all districts of Madeira. Stressed the importance of prevention in order to prevent future adults will need to place stents or other treatments that do end up leaving more expensive. Whereas this is a successful program in the region, the holder of the portfolio of Social Affairs also highlighted the cooperation provided by some doctors dentists Madeira to make it possible to have a greater involvement on the part of families, schools and students.
According to data provided by the regional secretary for Social Affairs, in the academic year 2006/2007, 12 thousand and 141 were covered. For counties in Calheta, the oral health program reached 959 students. Already in Ponta do Sol, 833 have been initiated in a total of 9 schools. In Ribeira Brava in Machico, 1225 and 1823, respectively, received care in dentistry. In Santa Cruz, were 2603, children who have had the program. Already in Santana, 571 children showed the mouth of the dental program, and 449 in San Vicente. In Porto Moniz, were 203, the children covered in Porto Santo, 408 and Câmara de Lobos, 3067.
In June this year, the opening of the X Week Smiling, the newly installed regional secretary for Social Affairs outlined a goal in 2010 as part of the Oral Health. Francisco Jardim Ramos set to that date, 50 percent of children of pre-primary and basic, should be free of dental caries. At the time, the chairman of the regional delegation of the Order of Doctors Dentists and member of the group of specialists that integrates the program of Oral Health of Madeira admitted that this proposal can be achieved by the regional secretary for Social Affairs.
Gil Alves also noted the importance of starting as soon as possible, with the program of oral health in the municipality of Funchal, the only city that was and where the program was not moved earlier due to lack of manpower. Gil Alves is now realized this desire.
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For some reason it seems that oral health programs for work in wood, the same can not be said on the mainland. Having as main activity linked to school education, never saw the school where I (Portugal Continental) any oral health initiative. Is it to ask how they are spending five million euros annually in programs for oral health in mainland Portugal?
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