The second point was about the need to
start dental services in Kasindi because the area is highly populated but has
no oral health services at all.
It reminded me the safaris we used to have in
the late eighties and early nineties we were having long queues of patients
coming from both Uganda and Congo.
The idea that came in my mind was that we
had some basic instruments in Beni Kasabinyole health centre which were to be
used by Mateso who went through training in Butembo but he’s never busy
according to the report we heard. Probably because there is Bernard Makasani
the Dental officer there having a better equipped clinic in the same area.
This
means that Beni is not suffering for lack of dental services but Kasindi is.
The question is whether Mateso may be willing to go there since he was trained
to do emergency dental treatments in health centres. This question needed more
thinking because it will involve some changes in staff appointment and shifting
people having big families becomes costly sometimes and inconveniencing for
children’s schools.
This means there number of things to be considered before a
final decision is taken. We shall follow it up to reach a conclusion about the
best thing to do, either to send him or to train one of the staff members in Kasindi health
centre who is already established in the area to do the work.
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