Ulaanbaatar
“MNUMS Dent” Dental Clinic Opened
Society
Ulaanbaatar, April 25,
2023 /MONTSAME/. The
Mongolian National University of Medical Science (MNUMS) officially opened its
“MNUMS Dent” dental clinic and launched a Mobile dental clinic service on April
20.
The Government of
Mongolia made a decision to launch a “Tooth” project nationwide to improve the
quality and accesibility of oral health care services and reduce dental caries
among children and accordingly, formed a Working Group headed by S. Enkhbold,
the Deputy Minister of Health.
In his opening
remarks, the Deputy Minister of Health said “The preventive and early-detection
checkups have been successfully continuing nationwide since last year at the
initiative of the President. Since the launch, 960 thousand people have been
involved. According to current results of those check-ups, among children with
age up to 17, oral disease is the most prevalent, accounting for 75.9 percent of
the total illness among the children. In this regard, Prime Minister L.
Oyun-Erdene mandated to launch of the “Tooth” project and the Working Group was
formed in accordance with the A/124 Decision of the Minister of Health. Thus,
today the MNUMS is opening its “MNUMS Dent” dental clinic as part of this
project. In addition to the dental clinic, the MNUMS is also launching its
Mobile Dental Clinic service to provide dental care services to underserved and
remote locations.”
Principal of the MNUMS
N. Khurelbaatar said “The MNUMS is striving to create and develop a university
hospital system in Mongolia. Our “MNUMS Dent” dental clinic will provide
specialty services and a range of comprehensive general and preventive care,
diagnostic care, and restorative treatments. In this regard, we hope that our
hospital will play an important role in achieving the goals set for the
"Tooth" project initiated by the Prime Minister of Mongolia.”
Besides dental care services, these dental clinics will become bases for on-the-job training for students majoring in dentistry.
