Canadian children set to benefit from new mobile dental unit
Children in Peterborough, Ontario are set to benefit from a new mobile dental unit and a new dental clinic.
The cost of the clinic and mobile unit will be covered by 1.1 million dollars worth of provincial funding in a bid to improve standards of oral health amongst the area’s poorest children. The mobile unit will provide care for children who would otherwise struggle to access dental services, including those who live in more remote areas. Children will be able to benefit from a comprehensive range of general dental treatments, as well as preventative treatments, which will help to reduce the risk of serious dental health problems in the future.
The Peterborough County-City Health Unit will be given the money by Ontario’s new Healthy Smiles programme, which has been launched to provide free oral healthcare for children under the age of 17 from low income families. Children must come from low income families to benefit from the services provided by the new scheme, as the government has not got sufficient resources to provide similar benefits to children from wealthier families.
The new programme will take immediate effect and eligible children will be able to access free dental care from health units across the region; however some of the facilities will not start operating until next year. The new clinic in Peterborough is set to open early next year but children can receive dental care from private dentists in the local community in the meantime. Enrolment for the programme will begin straight away.
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that’s so good and fantastic.am humbly enquiring if such opportunities could be accessed to ugandans where the rate of dental decay is alarming in paediatrics