World Outback
In 2009, Health e Children began a new partnership in an effort to extend our dental outreach to children and families. Since then, Health e Children has helped World Outback ministries with medicine and dental supplies to reach thousands of patients across rural Africa, Brazil, and China.
World Outback dentists not only bring their own medicine and dental supplies, but they also bring with them small, portable, dental equipment including an air compressor. In this way, they can accomplish even the most difficult of surgeries, as long as they have a source of fuel for generate electricity.
To date this new partnership with World Outback has provided care in China, Guinea Bissau, Niger, the Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Macau and remote villages in Alaska.
Drs. Diego and Tatiana caring for a
patient in remote China.
Dr. Tatiana Barreta examining a patient
in a busy clinic setting in China.
Like all Health e Children health
projects, there is an element of
education with every visit made.
Here the doctors teach using magic.
Dr. Diego assembling equipment at
a remote location.
Teaching among the Irikhbatzas Indians
along a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil.
Chinese children paying rapt attention
to the doctor's presentation.
Providing anesthetic in Senegal.
Prior to partnering with Health e Children
World Outback dentists were forced to
manage patients without pain medication.
Providing care in Caldo Nova, Brazil,
an area that receives a visiting
government care worker only one day a
month to handle dental emergencies.
Providing care in an outside hut in Senegal
where the daytime temperature reached
110 degrees Fahrenheit.