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Uganda aid boost
21st Jul 2006
In partnership with All Nations Christian Care, World Emergency Relief (WER) is providing free dental treatment to people living in IDP (internally displaced persons) camps in northern Uganda. This is enabling large numbers of people who would otherwise be unable to afford dental treatment to gain access to quality oral health care. Private dental clinics in northern Uganda charge 3,000 Ugandan shillings (approximately £1) to extract a tooth. This is how much it costs a mother in northern Uganda to feed her family for three days. It is therefore obvious to see why, when faced with this choice, people choose to sacrifice dental health care for the sake of being able to put food on the table. As a result, thousands of people in the camps live with the daily agony of poor oral health, which can have serious implications on their overall health and detrimental effects on eating, sleeping and family life. In association with Dentaid, WER has provided a mobile dental clinic and a Landrover for use in three IDP camps in the Lira district. With a population of over 760,000 people, Lira previously had only one dental unit. The treatment is therefore invaluable in providing the dental needs of those living in the camps.
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