A team of dentists, dental nurses and dental therapists will travel to Malawi from 30 April until 16 May 2020 to provide emergency dental treatment and oral health education programmes for hundreds of people.
The team will be based in and around Embangweni, which is two and a half hours from the capital of Lilongwe. They will visit schools, community buildings and health centres, providing pain-relieving dental treatments, fluoride varnish programmes and oral health advice. They will also be working with local dental professionals and in partnership with the Scottish-based dental charity, Smileawi.
Dentaid sent a team to Malawi in April this year when eight volunteer dental professionals travelled to the remote area of Bulala. They saw 1,100 patients, many of whom had severe dental pain but no access to dental care. There are fewer than 50 dentists in Malawi for a population of nearly 19 million and the team often found 100 patients waiting for treatment at the start of the day. The team also spent two days in Embangweni and team leader Nick O’Donovan is looking forward to returning.
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