Gloucestershire Dental Student Jets Off For Indian Mission
A dental student from Gloucestershire has flown to India to help some of the world’s poorest people.
Imogen Bexfield, from Tewkesbury, is one of four British dental students taking part in the mission, which aims to improve the quality of drinking water in remote areas. Speaking before she left for India, Imogen said that the experience would undoubtedly be “life-changing”.
Imogen is taking part in the mission as part of her dental studies at the University of Leeds and she is preparing to go into the fourth year of the five year degree programme in September.
Imogen has taken a valuable piece of equipment out to India with her to measure the fluoride levels; the aim is to reduce levels of fluoride in remote communities in the Himalayas, where they are currently so high that people have been left crippled. Fluoride levels are excessive because the water comes straight from the mountains.
The cost of the trip is £80,000 and donations are being gratefully accepted.
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