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

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

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

Madrid, October of 2012- Abbott and the ONG DENTALCOOP are collaborating, 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 Casamance region, will be the work of 15 dentists, 15 auxiliary and 1 technician, who will make 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 involved with projects of dental care to persons without resources, both in the third world and in our immediate surroundings.

In principle, their work develops in places where persons established 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 infrastructures by definition often live in precarious. Sometimes 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.