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PRESS RELEASE - 6 OCTOBER 2006
MOBILE DENTAL CLINIC PROVIDES FIRST TIME DENTAL CARE FOR
THOUSANDS OF UNDER-SERVED CHILDREN IN REMOTE EAST BALI
Denpasar, Bali, 6th October 2006: East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) started providing
comprehensive free dental health care on 6th October 2006 for the children of Ban village, Kubu
Sub District, Karangasem Regency, one of the most isolated and under-served areas of Bali, with a
fully equipped Mobile Denal Clinic.
The mobile clinic, owned by the Bali
International Women’s Association
(BIWA) and Bali Hati Foundation,
will be in Ban village every Friday
and Saturday, staffed by a team of
10-15 dentists and dental students
from the Dental Faculty of
Mahasaraswati University led by
Drg Panji Triadnya, with all
operational costs provided by EBPP,
under a joint operation agreement
signed by the four parties on 29th
September 2006, effective for three
years.
The
Clinic
was
officially
inaugurated by Dr Ida Ayu Suci
Astiti,
Head
of Karangasem
Regency Health Department, deputising for the Karangasem Regent, Bapak Wayan Geredeg,
outside SD1 primary school in Ban village, witnessed by 200 school children and EBPP Chairman,
David Booth, Dental Faculty Dean, Drg PA Mahendri, Bali Hati Director, Yacintha E
Desembriartista, Biwa President,
Ms Mayke Boestami, Head of Ban
village, Bapak Ketut Karta and
Bapak Wayan Sutapa, Head of
Kubu Sub District.
Eager children await for speeches to finish outside SD1 school in
Ban village
The first child getting treatment inside the mobile dental clinic
“The Mobile Dental Clinic
programme initiated by Yayasan
Ekoturin’s East Bali Poverty
Project is very helpful for the
people who don’t have any access
to dentists. The Karangasem
Regency
government
thanks
Yayasan Ekoturin for helping to
improve the health quality of
people, especially children, with
dental healthcare and hope that
Yayasan Ekoturin and Karangasem
government can improve their cooperation in helping more communities in the near future” said Dr
Suci Astiti
On the first day, 194 children were
treated, each one having an average of
one filling and one extraction. As earlier
dental inspections showed that 3,250
children in Ban village from 1-12 years
old need an average of 3 fillings and one
extraction and over 2,000 need treating
for serious gingivitis, there will be many
return visits to each of the 13 schools and
27 community health posts in the village
over the next year before each child has a
clean bill of dental health.
“When the clinic is not in Ban, it will be
used by the other 3 organisations to
Drg Panji treating children in their classroom
provide
dental
health
care
by
Mahasaraswati Dental faculty and also
reproductive women’s health care in many other under-served areas of Bali” stated Drg Mahendri.
Contact: David Booth MBE, 0361 410071; email: info@eastbalipovertyproject.org
www.eastbalipovertyproject.org
MOBILE DENTAL CLINIC PROVIDES FIRST TIME DENTAL CARE FOR
THOUSANDS OF UNDER-SERVED CHILDREN IN REMOTE EAST BALI
Denpasar, Bali, 6th October 2006: East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) started providing
comprehensive free dental health care on 6th October 2006 for the children of Ban village, Kubu
Sub District, Karangasem Regency, one of the most isolated and under-served areas of Bali, with a
fully equipped Mobile Denal Clinic.
The mobile clinic, owned by the Bali
International Women’s Association
(BIWA) and Bali Hati Foundation,
will be in Ban village every Friday
and Saturday, staffed by a team of
10-15 dentists and dental students
from the Dental Faculty of
Mahasaraswati University led by
Drg Panji Triadnya, with all
operational costs provided by EBPP,
under a joint operation agreement
signed by the four parties on 29th
September 2006, effective for three
years.
The
Clinic
was
officially
inaugurated by Dr Ida Ayu Suci
Astiti,
Head
of Karangasem
Regency Health Department, deputising for the Karangasem Regent, Bapak Wayan Geredeg,
outside SD1 primary school in Ban village, witnessed by 200 school children and EBPP Chairman,
David Booth, Dental Faculty Dean, Drg PA Mahendri, Bali Hati Director, Yacintha E
Desembriartista, Biwa President,
Ms Mayke Boestami, Head of Ban
village, Bapak Ketut Karta and
Bapak Wayan Sutapa, Head of
Kubu Sub District.
Eager children await for speeches to finish outside SD1 school in
Ban village
The first child getting treatment inside the mobile dental clinic
“The Mobile Dental Clinic
programme initiated by Yayasan
Ekoturin’s East Bali Poverty
Project is very helpful for the
people who don’t have any access
to dentists. The Karangasem
Regency
government
thanks
Yayasan Ekoturin for helping to
improve the health quality of
people, especially children, with
dental healthcare and hope that
Yayasan Ekoturin and Karangasem
government can improve their cooperation in helping more communities in the near future” said Dr
Suci Astiti
On the first day, 194 children were
treated, each one having an average of
one filling and one extraction. As earlier
dental inspections showed that 3,250
children in Ban village from 1-12 years
old need an average of 3 fillings and one
extraction and over 2,000 need treating
for serious gingivitis, there will be many
return visits to each of the 13 schools and
27 community health posts in the village
over the next year before each child has a
clean bill of dental health.
“When the clinic is not in Ban, it will be
used by the other 3 organisations to
Drg Panji treating children in their classroom
provide
dental
health
care
by
Mahasaraswati Dental faculty and also
reproductive women’s health care in many other under-served areas of Bali” stated Drg Mahendri.
Contact: David Booth MBE, 0361 410071; email: info@eastbalipovertyproject.org
www.eastbalipovertyproject.org