New Truck to Help Boost Dental Care in Central Australia
03-Jul-2010Adults and children in remote Aboriginal communities will benefit from funding from a new mobile dental truck, announced today in Alice Springs by the Minister for Indigenous Health Warren Snowdon and NT minister for Health, Kon Vatskalis. 'We're committed to addressing this issue this is the first pilot we're delivering as part of an $11 million initiative called Closing the Gap - Indigenous dental services in rural and regional areas program This will implement and evaluate pilot projects for mobile dental services for rural and regional Indigenous communities and now we're seeing Central Australia benefit from that investment,' Mr Snowdon said. The Australian Government has also funded the NT Government to provide dental follow-up services to children, and 7,865 of these dental services were provided to 4,949 children between July 2007 and May 2010.
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