Sauga Mabaia’s dream has started to become reality. Learning even the basics of dentistry used to be a far off idea, but the 29-year-old father of two, living in Karati village, has finally received the opportunity to begin learning with the help of the dentists that were on board for outreach one.
In a country longing for dental care, Sauga is ready to fill his role. Though he only had a few days to learn the basics, one of the volunteer dentists who was involved in training Sauga, Nirooban Sivarajah, described it as giving him a crash course in pain management and treatment. This will cater to the majority of dental needs in his village. “We taught him what questions to ask to find out what the problem is, to know what is worth keeping or taking out, and then how to extract the tooth itself.”
Although a full, in depth education of what Sauga learned would take years,Sauga did a phenomenal job with the “crash course” he went through due to the limited amount of time. The dentists were confident in his abilities to perform basic treatment after the ship had gone from his village. Sauga was also able to attend a training session with other health care workers in his village, hosted by members of the primary health care volunteers who were on board the ship.His excitement to learn and help his village was an encouragement to many volunteers on board!
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