Abbott donates 9,000 doses of medications to DENTALCOOP for the dentistry project Senegal 2013

-Will provide the medication to more than 1,400 people and there will be 1,900 visits between conservative, urgent, preventive dentistry and prosthesis

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

Madrid, October of 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 which will give coverage to more than 1,900 people.

For the project, which is developed in the South of Senegal, in the region of Casamance, 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 intended for residents of the towns of Kafountine and Thionk essyl. It will also collaborate with the town of Diouloulou, located 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 put at the disposal of other entities or organizations that are involved with projects of dental care to poor people, both in the third world and in our immediate environment.

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

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