742 simple extractions
199 basic cleanings
1250 children taught prevention
2191 LIVES AFFECTED!
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
July Report for Kinigi Health Center
123 patients seen
110 simple extractions
12 basic cleanings
1 referral
110 simple extractions
12 basic cleanings
1 referral
June Report for Kinigi Health Center
71 patients seen
56 simple extractions
16 basic cleanings
12 referrals
56 simple extractions
16 basic cleanings
12 referrals
Friday, July 1, 2011
Annual Report
Rural Rwanda Dental (RRD) builds sustainability through education. Our pilot program was in June, 2010 thanks to the efforts of Dr. Larry Warren, Dr. Marcus Gottlieb, and myself. With Rwanda support from dental therapists John Berchmans Habimana and Jean Claude Rukundo and community facilitator Bertin Gakombe, we focused on training four nurses from two community health centers in rural Rwanda to perform simple extractions, basic cleanings, and teaching prevention. To date, these four nurses have impacted nearly 2,000 people.
We have built this model consulting with and supported by: Kenya Medical Mission, John C. Lincoln Children’s Dental Clinic; Arizona Dental Association; People to People Citizen Ambassadors; Kigali Health Institute Dental Clinic Center; Dentaid; Deseret International Foundation; Academy of LDS Dentists; The Access Project; Rwanda Works; Project Cure; EOS Visions: Rwanda, Millennium Villages; Art of Conservation; Hu Friedy; Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project; Hesperian Publishing; University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry; University of Nebraska College of Masters of Business Administration; California Dental Association; Ahmed Naguib and Jessica McGhie, Peace Corps volunteers; and Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, MD, MPH, UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program.
Dr. Drew Cahoon partnered with RRD in December, 2010. After four successful years in Uganda, Dr. Cahoon has developed a solid foothold in Rwanda since February, 2009 with equipment donations, community outreach, and teaching the current and past students at Kigali Health Institute (KHI) on ART (Atraumatic Restorative Treatment), oral hygiene, periodontal procedures, and equipment repair. RRD will fortify the community outreach program starting with the primary schools in Musanze district in February, 2012
In March, I was invited to participate in an international conference on “The Long Tail of Global Health Equity: Tackling the Endemic Non-Communicable Diseases of the Bottom Billion” hosted by Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Partners in Health, The NCD Alliance, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health, Global Taskforce on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries, and Harvard Global Health Equity Initiative. I networked with the several faculty people at Harvard’s School of Dental Medicine. As a result of those connections, Dr. Cahoon participated in a weeklong workshop in Rwanda in May on “Academic Partnerships for Rwanda” sponsored by the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Partners in Health, and the Rwanda Ministry of Health that charted a seven year plan to improve all facets of health care. Dr. Cahoon and I will work closely with Harvard School of Dental Medicine, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, and KHI to bolster the oral health component.
Because of our work in Rwanda, I was asked to lead an oral health delegation with People to People Citizen Ambassador Program to Rwanda in October. We will look at the dental education system, governmental support of dentistry, urban dentistry, hospital dental delivery, and our program in the rural areas
Our next program will be in February, 2012 where our team will emphasize prevention: teaching children, teachers, community health workers, and nurses on the importance of proper tooth brushing, proper nutrition, fluoride varnish, ART, and sealants.
I continue to recruit potential volunteers from church groups, Rotary clubs, Academy of General Dentistry, and dental and hygiene schools. Dr. Warren and Dr. Gottlieb have helped me recruit at dental conventions and dental study clubs. We may have as many as seven volunteers for our February, 2012 team.
Respectively submitted,
Richard T. Reckmeyer, DDS, MBA
Executive Director
http://www.rrdental.org/
We have built this model consulting with and supported by: Kenya Medical Mission, John C. Lincoln Children’s Dental Clinic; Arizona Dental Association; People to People Citizen Ambassadors; Kigali Health Institute Dental Clinic Center; Dentaid; Deseret International Foundation; Academy of LDS Dentists; The Access Project; Rwanda Works; Project Cure; EOS Visions: Rwanda, Millennium Villages; Art of Conservation; Hu Friedy; Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project; Hesperian Publishing; University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry; University of Nebraska College of Masters of Business Administration; California Dental Association; Ahmed Naguib and Jessica McGhie, Peace Corps volunteers; and Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, MD, MPH, UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program.
Dr. Drew Cahoon partnered with RRD in December, 2010. After four successful years in Uganda, Dr. Cahoon has developed a solid foothold in Rwanda since February, 2009 with equipment donations, community outreach, and teaching the current and past students at Kigali Health Institute (KHI) on ART (Atraumatic Restorative Treatment), oral hygiene, periodontal procedures, and equipment repair. RRD will fortify the community outreach program starting with the primary schools in Musanze district in February, 2012
In March, I was invited to participate in an international conference on “The Long Tail of Global Health Equity: Tackling the Endemic Non-Communicable Diseases of the Bottom Billion” hosted by Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Partners in Health, The NCD Alliance, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health, Global Taskforce on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries, and Harvard Global Health Equity Initiative. I networked with the several faculty people at Harvard’s School of Dental Medicine. As a result of those connections, Dr. Cahoon participated in a weeklong workshop in Rwanda in May on “Academic Partnerships for Rwanda” sponsored by the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Partners in Health, and the Rwanda Ministry of Health that charted a seven year plan to improve all facets of health care. Dr. Cahoon and I will work closely with Harvard School of Dental Medicine, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, and KHI to bolster the oral health component.
Because of our work in Rwanda, I was asked to lead an oral health delegation with People to People Citizen Ambassador Program to Rwanda in October. We will look at the dental education system, governmental support of dentistry, urban dentistry, hospital dental delivery, and our program in the rural areas
Our next program will be in February, 2012 where our team will emphasize prevention: teaching children, teachers, community health workers, and nurses on the importance of proper tooth brushing, proper nutrition, fluoride varnish, ART, and sealants.
I continue to recruit potential volunteers from church groups, Rotary clubs, Academy of General Dentistry, and dental and hygiene schools. Dr. Warren and Dr. Gottlieb have helped me recruit at dental conventions and dental study clubs. We may have as many as seven volunteers for our February, 2012 team.
Respectively submitted,
Richard T. Reckmeyer, DDS, MBA
Executive Director
http://www.rrdental.org/
May Report for Kinigi Health Center
70 patients seen
49 simple extractions
12 basic cleanings
7 referrals
49 simple extractions
12 basic cleanings
7 referrals
Sunday, May 15, 2011
April Report for Kinigi Health Center
41 patients seem
37 simple extractions
5 basic cleanings
2 referrals
37 simple extractions
5 basic cleanings
2 referrals
Some Exciting Things Happening in Rwanda!
Friday, May 13, 2011
Dr. Cahoon represented Rural Rwanda Dental at this important conference
KIGALI - President Paul Kagame yesterday hosted a delegation of 38 people from leading universities in the United States, led by Ira Magaziner, the co-founder of Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI).
The delegation, from 16 top medical, nursing and health management schools, is in the country to create a partnership with the Ministry of Health.
Speaking to reporters after meeting the President, Magaziner said that they would work with their Rwandan colleagues to offer world class training. “They have met about 55 of their Rwandan colleagues involved in medical education in universities and hospitals and they have planned the programme. By the end of seven years, Rwanda will have a world class health education system,” Magaziner said.
Magaziner, who co-founded CHAI with former US President Bill Clinton, said that the group had paid a courtesy call on the Head of State to brief him on the programme and seek his opinion and advice. He noted that the programme is in line with the vision President Kagame shares with Clinton - to build a quality, world class healthcare system in Rwanda.
“The need is also to develop a base of highly educated people that can lead to the creation of research in health industries and the health economy of Rwanda, that is what we are working on with the leadership of the Ministry of Health,” Magaziner said.
The group will focus on several areas of specialty such as dentistry, nursing, obstetrics, paediatrics and many others providing diverse expertise.
“We are canvassing more support to this programme because once we come together, the vision that President Kagame has given us, of accelerating Rwanda into a middle income country will be achieved,” Prof. Patrick Kyamanywa, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the National University of Rwanda (NUR),said. “We have to improve the products of our higher learning institutions and medicine is the most urgent of these”.
He noted that Rwanda was able to attract the experts from leading US universities because of its vision to build a quality, vibrant world class health and medical science system for the country. “With these universities around and the discussions we are holding with them, I think we are going to come up with very concrete ways of trying to achieve this world class education as regards medical sciences,” Kyamanywa added.The programme is expected to kick off in a year.
The representatives were drawn from Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Duke, Virginia, Colorado, Texas and Maryland universities as well as leading nursing schools
Friday, April 22, 2011
March Report for Kinigi Health Center
62 patients seen
46 simple extractions
4 basic cleanings
11 referrals
46 simple extractions
4 basic cleanings
11 referrals
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
January Report from Kinigi Health Center
88 patients seen
63 simple extractions
14 basic cleanings
13 referrals
63 simple extractions
14 basic cleanings
13 referrals
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Latest Reports from Kinigi Health Center
November, 2010
82 patients seen
62 simple extractions
21 basic cleanings
7 referrals
December, 2010
66 patients seen
52 simple extractions
17 basic cleanings
6 referrals
82 patients seen
62 simple extractions
21 basic cleanings
7 referrals
December, 2010
66 patients seen
52 simple extractions
17 basic cleanings
6 referrals
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