Abbott donates 9,000 doses of medication to DENTALCOOP project of dentistry Senegal 2013

-Be provided medication to more than 1,400 people and 1,900 visits between conservative, urgent, preventive dentistry and prosthesis will be made

– in the project, which will take place in the South of Senegal, in the Casamance region, will collaborate 15 dentists and assistants 15 1 prosthetic.

Madrid, October 2012.- Abbott and the ONG DENTALCOOP work together for the second consecutive year, in a program of dental care in Senegal. The company has donated almost 9,000 doses of medication that will give coverage to more than 1,900 people.

For the project, which is developed in the South of Senegal, in the Casamance region, will be the work of 15 dentists, 15 auxiliary and 1 technician, who will be 1,900 visits between conservative, urgent, preventive dentistry and prosthesis.

The company has donated 7,000 doses of Neobrufen with codeine tablets coated, 1,350 dose of 400 mg tablets coated Dalsy and 420 doses of Klacid 500 mg tablets. All these drugs are destined for the inhabitants of the towns of Kafountine and Thionk essyl. It will also collaborate with the town of Diouloulou, situated 15 km from Kafountine, and medication will be sent to the hospital of Bangag in Banjul.

In 2012, the company donated other 7,000 doses of Neobrufen with codeine to DENTALCOOP for the same project.

About DENTALCOOP

Dentalcoop is an Association of volunteers for the dental health that is made available to other entities or organizations that are committed to projects of dental care for persons without resources, both in the third world and in our immediate surroundings.

In principle, their work takes place where people set out with a minimal and serious infrastructure for the development of its work. The entity operates in places where gaps are endless and the people who maintain the infrastructure by definition tend to live in precarious. Sometimes the needs that arise are peripheral to the strict dental activity.

The Association is not only made up of dentists, they are welcomed to assistants, hygienists, technical Prosthetists, facilities technicians, deposits of material or laboratories.