UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF ORAL CARE
LIFESTYLES AND DISEASES CORRELATION
MOBILE DENTAL STOPS IN MBENGWI DISTRICT
INTEGRATED DENTAL CLINIC
INTEGRATED MOBILE AND DENTAL CARE CLINICS
Dental Care can be as simple as tooth brushing or complex as treating diseases such as heart attack and strokes resulting from tooth bacterial infections. Preventive dental care costs less than a heart operation or treating other diseases caused by tooth decay such as diabetes‚ TB‚ HIV/AIDS and cancer. But if we must treat‚ quality care is not only a requirement but the principle of Microhealth Global Dental Care Center.
GLOBAL HEALTHCARE OBJECTIVE
- Provide dental care and open access to patients In villages
- Provide Accountability and Transparency
- Provide treatment and check-ups/referrals
- Grow a bottom-up empowerment team for dental care sustainability
HEALTHCARE IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY AND COVERAGE
- Implement a Dental Care integrated delivery System by linking network of health centers to the outreach Van Dental Care Safety Net
- Establish an accountability module and an assessment methodology
- Use outreach van for patient education‚ screening‚ check-ups‚ and general consultations and refer cases to clinics and hospitals.
- Create and manage a local implementation team (Technology and an Administrative Teams)
- Develop a solid and effective patient management strategy
- Dental Care
- Protocols
- Procedures
- Documentations
- Policies
- Establish MH-GC oversight procedures
- Establish committees for each critical management component of the System
The growing trend of health outreach programs requires outreach health clinic like the one provided by traditional hospitals. However‚ poverty‚ lack of specialized staffs‚ lack of education and bad roads prevents rapid movement of patients to health centers and hospitals. As a result‚ the outreach Dental Clinic brings medical care closer to the people. Where the Mobile Clinic cannot reach‚ we dispatch dental technicians on motorbikes as first respondents. We have programmed twenty-two health stops in Mbengwi District. See visual of diagram … MBENGWI DISTRICT MOBILE STOPS