City Hall holds oral health assessment and monitoring workshop

Seeking to strengthen dental care, Arapongas City Hall, through the Municipal Health Department, held an Oral Health Assessment and Monitoring workshop. The meeting brought together professionals in the auditorium of the Municipal Palace, including dentists, assistants and oral health technicians. The topics covered were: purchasing new dental equipment; Presentation of monitoring of dental care, procedures and indicators for 2023; organization of service flows and work processes; Programming of oral health activities for 2024: dental care, home visits, activities in schools through the School Health Program (PSE) and events to promote oral health and also welcome new dental employees, highlighting specialists in endodontics, responsible for dental root canal treatments at the Specialties Center.

The director of dentistry at the Municipal Health Department, José Fernandes Alves, highlighted the importance of meetings to align strategic actions to maintain the quality of dental care in Arapongas. “We have good physical structures and trained professionals. One of the management’s priorities is to provide quality dental care, meeting the real needs of the population,” he highlighted.

DID YOU KNOW?

The Municipal Health Department, through the Oral Health Department, has a dental service on weekends. On Saturdays and Sundays, services are concentrated at the Dental Specialties Center (CEO). The patient will be admitted through the 24-hour Emergency Room “Alberto Esper Kallas”, Rua Bonito do Campo nº 40, corner of Rua Juriti. Services will be held from 7am to 11am. It is worth remembering that these services will only be urgent and there is no need to schedule an appointment.

Currently the municipality has 29 Basic Health Units and dental offices installed in 17 of them: Águias, Araponguinha, Araucaria, Aricanduva, Bandeirantes, CAIC, Centauro, Columbia, Del Condor, Guadalupe, Padre Chico, Palmares, Pombas, Primavera, San Raphael , Tropical and Ulisses Guimarães.
In addition to these UBS, the municipality also has night dental care at 03 Emergency Rooms 6pm (Flamingos, Palmares and Petrópolis).