Dental health empowerment for underprivileged children community in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah

Aim: To describe and report the activities done at PPMI (Pusat Pembangunan Minda Insan) in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah. Brief description of activities: Tambisan, located in the eastern tip of Sabah, is a controversial area among Malaysians due to Lahad Datu intrusion and a series of abduction. The...

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Main Authors:	Ghazali, Ahmad Badruddin, Abdullah Thaidi, Nur Imanina
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	RK Dentistry
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spelling	iium-751542019-11-12T02:11:54Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/75154/ Dental health empowerment for underprivileged children community in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah Ghazali, Ahmad Badruddin Abdullah Thaidi, Nur Imanina RK Dentistry Aim: To describe and report the activities done at PPMI (Pusat Pembangunan Minda Insan) in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah. Brief description of activities: Tambisan, located in the eastern tip of Sabah, is a controversial area among Malaysians due to Lahad Datu intrusion and a series of abduction. The village was previously given grants under KKLW to empower the local communities economically and it was done with the collaboration of a local NGO. A volunteer school to cater to local underprivileged children, which many of them did not have proper identification and cannot receive the education, medical and dental coverage from the government facilities. In 2014, the first medical and dental camp was organized by Kelab Kesihatan HALUAN, A second mini dental mission was organized with help from Pejabat Pergigian Lahad Datu in 2016, both with a military escort by ESSCOM. Conclusion: The biggest obstacles for organizing medical and dental camps in these rural areas were money, logistic, and safety. Therefore, we believe that proper and continuous education combined with strategic cooperation with many agencies to empower an underprivileged community. 2019 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/75154/1/Presenters%20MAD%20CVE%20DR%20AHMAD.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/75154/13/75154%20abstract.pdf Ghazali, Ahmad Badruddin and Abdullah Thaidi, Nur Imanina (2019) Dental health empowerment for underprivileged children community in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah. In: Malaysia-International Dental Exhibition and Conference (MIDEC) 2019, 12th-14th June 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Unpublished) https://www.mda.org.my/midec/2019/images/01-04-programmebook/midec2019-PROGRAMMEBOOK1.pdf
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spellingShingle	RK Dentistry Ghazali, Ahmad Badruddin Abdullah Thaidi, Nur Imanina Dental health empowerment for underprivileged children community in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah
description	Aim: To describe and report the activities done at PPMI (Pusat Pembangunan Minda Insan) in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah. Brief description of activities: Tambisan, located in the eastern tip of Sabah, is a controversial area among Malaysians due to Lahad Datu intrusion and a series of abduction. The village was previously given grants under KKLW to empower the local communities economically and it was done with the collaboration of a local NGO. A volunteer school to cater to local underprivileged children, which many of them did not have proper identification and cannot receive the education, medical and dental coverage from the government facilities. In 2014, the first medical and dental camp was organized by Kelab Kesihatan HALUAN, A second mini dental mission was organized with help from Pejabat Pergigian Lahad Datu in 2016, both with a military escort by ESSCOM. Conclusion: The biggest obstacles for organizing medical and dental camps in these rural areas were money, logistic, and safety. Therefore, we believe that proper and continuous education combined with strategic cooperation with many agencies to empower an underprivileged community.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ghazali, Ahmad Badruddin Abdullah Thaidi, Nur Imanina
author_facet	Ghazali, Ahmad Badruddin Abdullah Thaidi, Nur Imanina
author_sort	Ghazali, Ahmad Badruddin
title	Dental health empowerment for underprivileged children community in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah
title_short	Dental health empowerment for underprivileged children community in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah
title_full	Dental health empowerment for underprivileged children community in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah
title_fullStr	Dental health empowerment for underprivileged children community in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah
title_full_unstemmed	Dental health empowerment for underprivileged children community in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah
title_sort	dental health empowerment for underprivileged children community in tambisan, lahad datu, sabah
publishDate	2019
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Dental health empowerment for underprivileged children community in Tambisan, Lahad Datu, Sabah

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