Mangalore: 240 Children screened during Nitte Special Child Programme
-Media Release
Mangalore, Jul 16, 2014 : The department of pediatric dentistry, A B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Nitte University organized a dental and medical screening camp as a part of Nitte Special Child programme (N-SPEC) in collaboration with state Sarva Shikshana Abhiyana, under the able guidance of senior Professor Dr Amitha M Hegde and co-ordinator Dr Amarshree Shetty.
The departments of psychiatrics, ophthalmology, speech and hearing and orthopedics of K S Hegde Medical Academy, Nitte University, had joined with department of pedodontics in this endeavour, at A B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences premises here recently.
Mangalore south zone Sarva Shikshana Abhiyana chief co-ordinator Laxmi Narayana and Cynthia Vinutha D’Souza were present on the occasion.
The dental and medical screening of 240 special children was done. ‘Makkala Arogya Kshema’ Health cards with the treatment needs were handed to each child, to avail their respective treatments at A B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences and K S Hegde Medical Academy at reduced rate.