Mobile dental and Medical Services
Mobile Dental and Medical Services for Rural Disadvantaged Cambodians
Long-term aid through support in 2010
Last year the German Embassy in Phnom Penh supported a micro-scale project to promote primary health care of the rural population and their access to dental examinations. USD 18,500 went to the Cambodian non-governmental organization Khmer Association for Development (KAD). So the NGO, which was already known as a reliable partner, could buy the medical equipment, instruments and the material which they needed to establish the Mobile Dental and Medical clinic.
The team of the Mobile (Dental) Clinic, which currently consists of 19 volunteer medical and dental students
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from Cambodia, Australia and New Zealand, a doctor from Singapore and a dentist from New Zealand, since then travels every day to the provinces around Phnom Penh to help disadvantaged groups. For the most part they meet people who have never received medical treatment. Nevertheless rarely serious diseases have to be treated. Instead medical care comprises mainly the deworming, control of lice and scabies, and public health education, vaccination and the output of drugs. The dentists take care of of the extraction of teeth, restorations, root canals, oral health education etc.
Through the support in the past year, the foundation for longer-term support of the rural population are placed in terms of their health care and education. Since the launch of the project, the medical team has already treated 2.028 patients,
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most of them were children.
