Additionally, Community Health educators train villagers in basic hygiene, nutrition and health. Dentists and hygienists perform extractions, provide restorations and teach preventive dental hygiene. New Steps provides amputees with high-quality prosthetics in countries ravaged by war and violence. THE NEED 20 million blind people could receive their sight through a one-hour operation. Four million children die each year due to diseases preventable by simple immunization.
Millions live without medical attention for even the most basic illnesses.
Witt and Ball felt privileged to address a small fraction of the health care needs in Banjul, The Gambia. At the Sutherland Institute, it is our intention to continue such worldwide outreach on a regular basis, representing KUMC in these efforts.