Dental care in Sickle Cell Disease

Description

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) affects an estimated at 7.74 million cases, with SubSaharan Africa accounting for 5.7 million of these cases. Every year 515,000 children are born with SCD globally. In Kenya there are high burden regions in 17 counties in western and coastal regions, and annually an estimated at 14,000 newborns are born with Sickle cell disease. Though new screening data estimate the number at 1-2 per 100. The Ministry of Health, Sickle cell Federation of Kenya together stakeholders have over the year been advancing improvement in Sickle cell disease care especially in this high burden counties with improved outcomes of people living with SCD surviving into adulthood.

Objectives

Presenters

1. Dr. Zipporah Rop
   Dr. Zipporah Rop is a Pediatric Dentist & Tutorial Fellow in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Orthodontics & Oral Biology at Moi University School of Dentistry. She loves treating children and mentoring dental students in pediatric dentistry. She is one of the awardees of the Federation Dentaire Internationale World Dental Development Fund (FDI-WDDF) 2019 for her interests in integrating oral health in primary healthcare settings
   


2. Dr. Alex Gachoya
   Dr. Gachoya Alex is a medical officer currently serving as the program coordinator for the SCD Afya Dhabiti Project. This is a project spearheaded by the Ministry ofHealth, funded by Norvatis and implemented by AMPATH and NCDAK. As a result, he has been involved in co-creating and implementing SCD curriculums used for the training of both health care workers and community health promoters. He also sits in MTRH’s SCD clinics seeing patients under the paediatric and adult’s haematologists.