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Matching Grant #61213
Mobile Dental Van - Bidar, India |
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This matching grant project funded the purchase and construction of a van that was donated to a dental college in Bidar, India.
The Rotary Club of Basavakalyan, India in District 3160 partnered with the Rotary Club of Sparta, Illinois, D6510 to sponsor this matching grant. Additional funding came from Rotary District 6060-Eastern Missouri; District 6150-Northern Arkansas; and District 6510-Southern Illinois.
The S.B. Patil Dental College & Hospital in Bidar, India made an agreement with Rotary that if our Rotary Foundation would purchase the van, the Dental College would fit it out and equip it as a mobile dental office. |
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This project developed as a result of an exploratory trip to India by two Missouri Rotarian dentists in January 2005. Dr. Saba Khalil and Dr. Todd Lindley received an Individual Grant from our Rotary Foundation to travel to Bidar, India to research the need for dental projects to help the local poor population.
Past District Governor Umesh Megur arranged for the two Missouri dentists to spend time nearly every day for a week with the Community Health Department of the S.B. Patil College of Dentistry faculty. |
| This project had several Rotary partners. The host sponsor club was the Rotary Club of Basavakalyan, Karnataka, India, District 3160. The international sponsor club was the Rotary Club of Sparta, Illinois District 6510. Additional funding came from Rotary District 6060, eastern Missouri, District 6150, northern Arkansas, District 6510, southern Illinois and The Rotary Foundaton. All of these partners working together provided over $27,000 in funding. The dental equipment was provided by the S.B. Patil College of Dentistry in Bidar, India. |
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As dentists graduate from Dental School in India, they spend another year in a residency program where they rotate through the various specialties of dentistry for two months at a time. The Community Health Department is one such department, where the newly graduated dentists go out into the community to provide service, such as examinations of school-age youth, community education programs to the same youth, and basic and emergency treatment of the rural poor. |
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At the rural camp, dentists of the Community Health Department provided some dental hygience services using a portable dental chair and hand-held flashlights.
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A local dentist allowed the Community Health Department to use his dental office to place some basic fillings. No x-ray equipment was available.
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The oral surgery department was a small hallway with a few plastic lawn chairs.
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| The Community Health Department dentists are out providing various types of dental services in the community nearly every day of the month. They visit the remote villages in a 30 mile radius from their school on a rotating basis. Having access to a fully-equipped dental office would be a hugh help to them. |
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Photo's from early July 2007. The van chassis is being modified to create a moblie dental clinic. Should be completed and ready to be put into service within 30-60 days.
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Project inauguration day, Sat. Aug. 11, 2007. District 3160 Governor Satyanarayana M. Rajalabandi visits Basavakalyan and helps dedicate the van for service to the poor. Also attending are Past District Governors Umesh Megur and K.C. Senan.
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| Dentist PDG Harry Henderson went to District 3160 in February 2009 to volunteer as a Rotarian dentist with the S. B. Patil School of Dentistry and was able to do some work out in rural villages with the mobile dental van that his district helped fund with Matching Grant 61213. |
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Dr. Vijay Konda, supervising instructor of the Community Dentistry department of the S. B. Patil Dental School is supervising work being done on patients in rural villages with the dental van |
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PDG Dr. Harry Henderson and Dr. Vijay Konda visit in front of the van signage giving thanks to all the funding partners on this project, including Harry's home club, Rotary Club of Sparta, Illinois. |
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