Health trust donates dental unit to help orphans
Northumberland NHS Care Trust has donated an old mobile unit to help orphans in the Ukraine.
The trust has donated the old medical unit to Mercy Trucks, a charity based in Hexham; the charity will now covert the mobile unit into a brand new dental van, before taking it over to the Ukraine.
Volunteers at the charity will spend the next two weeks transforming the former medical unit into a new mobile dental unit. The unit will then be used to provide much-needed dental care for orphaned and poor children in Eastern Europe. Members of the NHS trust handed over the unit to Roy Dixon, co-founder of Mercy Trucks.
Roy Dixon said that the new dental unit will be used to provide dental care in the community; the van will enable the charity to expand an existing dental project in Kiev. Mr Dixon said that dental problems are very common in the Ukraine and many children develop serious health problems as a result largely preventable dental conditions; for example, a child with an abscess often develops septicaemia because they are not given the appropriate treatment and do not have access to suitable dental care facilities.
Mr Dixon said he was delighted to receive the truck from the NHS trust and is looking forward to taking it out to the Ukraine to help the children.
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