Kathmandu. Minister for Health and Population Pradeep Poudel has said that the social understanding of dental health needs to change. Speaking at a program on ‘Current Status and Challenges of Oral Health Services in Nepal’ organized in Kathmandu on Thursday, he said this.
He said that the general public has been confused by linking the cosmetic repair of damaged teeth with dental health. He stressed that teeth should be kept healthy to keep the body healthy, and said that hospitals, equipment and manpower are essential for dental treatment. He said that the health of the body is linked to dental health.
He said, ‘Dental treatment is considered a cosmetic treatment, which is wrong. It falls within health treatment. It is not just about bringing out the teeth that have fallen in, but teeth are related to the body. Therefore, healthy teeth are needed for a healthy body. We are not able to explain this. For this, hospitals and equipment are mandatory. There should be manpower accordingly. The idea that this will happen whether you do it or not is wrong. Dental health is integral to maintaining body health. The kind of narrative that exists needs to be changed.’
Minister Poudel said that even though dental manpower is being produced in Nepal, doctors have had to migrate abroad due to the society’s lack of understanding about dental health. He said that society should feel the need for this subject so that the produced manpower can provide services in Nepal.
He said, ‘Manpower is being produced now. Because the government level has not been able to give it full priority and because the society has not seriously understood its treatment system, we are not able to keep the human resources in Nepal. In order to create a situation where the produced human resources are kept in Nepal, that society must understand the relevance of any position, any job, any profession. That society must feel the need for that profession.’
Minister Poudel expressed his commitment to create treatment units by arranging dental posts in all federal hospitals across the country.
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