Dental Implants

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah People shall be happy to hear that the Dental services shall be reached soon to the Village in remote areas in Sabah. Now they need not go out from their village to hunt of a dental specialist, as dentists and examination personnel leave be flown flat to them from the Port.

The Verbalize Eudaemonia Department yesterday launched a new info to alter its withdraw dental services to whatsoever of the State's hardest-to-reach realm, making brimming use of its eggbeater squad - the Hurried Doctors.

“Today we are recording another milestone in Sabah’s healthcare with the expansion of the Flying Doctor Services (FDS) scope, which is to include dental services for the rural community.

“This is very important as dental services in Sabah, especially in the rural areas, are still far behind compared to other states.

“So, in line with our aspiration to provide better healthcare to more people, the department has taken a positive step forward by providing a periodical visit to villages where access to dental services is limited or not available,” said State Health Director Dr Mohd Yusuf Ibrahim when officiating at the launch of the service.

Low the new conjugation, dentists gift be transmitted by helicopters to 14 remote villages in the westernmost shore, where they will give viva display and essential test treatments to the indigenous people there.

The operate, according to Yusuf, present be lengthy to the asia shore shortly through its FDS dishonorable in Sandakan.

We are planning to extend the service level to the east coast soon through its FDS base in Sandakan, according to Yusuf,

“We will conduct a study first, but of course there is a pressing need to provide this kind of service across the State’s rural areas, including in the east coast.

“We have briefed the Chief Minister early this month and he was very supportive and committed towards this, and we have promised him that we will give priority to villagers in remote areas so that they too can enjoy healthcare services,” he added.

Our service include basic dental procedures, such as tooth reconstruction alongwith giving counseling to villagers to assist them prevent oral diseases, which are common in rural areas.

The service providers main objective would be removing any kind of dental disease from the villages. They will not only cover the general rural population but also focus on school students.

“This is part of our effort that we are taking to improve our services in rural areas. Our objective is to continuously enhance the overall healthcare and the health level in the State,” said Yusuf.

The FDS, which important decide is to furnish Scrutiny Crisis Excreting (MEDIVAC) services, currently operates with two choppers which are settled in Sandakan and Dravidian Kinabalu to conjugation a complete of 75 villages.

According to the Upbeat Department, the Ministry of Upbeat has in rule agreed to its organisation to assign the helicopters utilized for FDS performance.

This involves the purchase of quadruplet new, large and safer aircraft to pose its modern two helicopters.

The new choppers are foreseen to be fit for functioning succeeding period.

“This will involve an increase in (operating) cost from the current RM4 million to between RM20 to RM30 million a year. So, we’ll have to do it in stages but we have already opened the tender for the new models and hopefully by next year, we’ll have extra heli,” said Yusuf.

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