DOH turns over dental bus to Ormoc

ORMOC CITY, Leyte, June 28 (PNA) -– The Department of Health (DOH) turned over on Tuesday a mobile dental clinic (MDC) to enable the City Health Department (CHD) to provide dental services to depressed areas.

Manufactured in China, the airconditioned six-wheeler coaster was customized into a clinic equipped with two dental chairs, lavatory, hand instruments and other equipment.

Ormoc is reportedly included in the 100 localities provided with the MDC worth PHP3.95 million each. Other places in Eastern Visayas that received the dental bus are Northern Samar and Biliran provinces, Palo town, and the cities of Tacloban, Baybay and Maasin.

Donabel B. Lago, coordinator of CHD’s dental health program, said the MDC will prove useful during medical missions and the village visits of the mayor except in hard-to-reach areas.

Aside from the dental bus, the DOH also turned over 25 wheelchairs worth PHP3,225 each or a total of PHP80,639 (PNA)

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