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One hundred Aam Aadmi dental clinics to be opened across Delhi

Shri. Satyendar Jain (far left), Dr.Mahesh Verma (centre), Shri. Manish Sisodia (far right) at the inauguartion of Delhi Smiles Dental Utsav in New Delhi.
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Fri. 23 December 2016

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New Delhi: While Inaugurating Delhi Smiles” Dental Health Utsav, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced that New Delhi is set to get around one hundred new dental clinics along side mohalla clinics , the Aam Aadmi Dental clinics project is being implemented as part of the AAP Government’s efforts to enhance medical infrastructure across Delhi.

With the lack of an effective Dental health insurance in India, the new project by Delhi Governement to open dental clinics along side the existing mohalla clinics is a much needed boost to the health care infrastructure. 

In his speech, at Delhi smiles Dental Utsav  Hon’ble Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Shri. Manish Sisodia, said that oral diseases are prevalent and none in any social strata are spared from the impact of these diseases. He emphasised the need for preventive strategies to be developed  through awareness drives and provide timely dental care to reduce the burden of dental diseases among the masses.

The efforts should be to target mainly school children so that they develop positive dental health attitude. He emphasized that there is an urgent need to bring oral health to the schools and train children to maintain oral hygiene

Speaking on the occasion, Shri. Satyendar Jain, Hon’ble Minister of Health and Family Welfare said that Government is making all efforts to ensure access of adequate dental services to all citizens in Delhi. He said Delhi has made tremendous improvements in health care delivery, and that much of the credit should be given to its network of public hospitals. 

He also said there is an urgent need to create centres for routine dental care . And for such services at primary and secondary levels should be addressed by “Aam Admi Dental Clinics”.

 

 

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