A small step to create oral and general health awareness
SANA PAILA is a non- profitable, non-governmental, oral health oriented community level organization. The NGO has been diligently working on oral health awareness and treatment needs in the marginalized community, schools, old age homes and shelter homes of Eastern region of Nepal. The organization has been actively involved in conducting dental health screening, oral cancer screening, oral health awareness and hygiene maintenance, tobacco awareness campaigns since its establishment.
The ultimate aim/motto of the organization is to take small steps towards clean healthy and prosperous community free of tobacco, Oral Cancer and other oral diseases.
Introduction
A team of nine members from different background but same motive started up Sana Paila
First official event
Free Oral and General Check up with Awareness Program at Birat Deaf Secondary School
Free Oral and Dental Camps
Oral hygiene instructions followed by awareness regarding tobacco consumption, harms and effects.
Anti-tobacco campaign
Instructions for oral hygiene maintenance and awareness about effects of tobacco related products.
Dr Meera Acharya, the president of Sana Paila is a Dentist based in Eastern Region of Nepal, a city close to the border of India (Jogbani) and Nepal (Biratnagar) who has been continuously practicing Dentistry for 17 years in a row now.
Dr. Acharya has been continuously seeing patients with various forms of Oral Cancer and pre-cancerous lesions for all this years .This is because the people in our country are also under great influence of tobacco in different forms, along with betel nut chewing. She always felt sorry to see them at a stage where in she had to refer them to an oncologist for further treatment though she is aware of the prognosis then after. There were times when the patient didn’t even realize about the disease and it was a satisfying moment for her being a Dentist that she could warn them, and help them heal. Such incidents had always provoked and inspired her to act as an alarming signal for those in need.
She along with few other friends who also happened to be from the same field of Dentistry decided to do something of their own to help the people smile confidently with no regrets of any marks or spots and be free of all diseases of the mouth and the entire system as well. Mouth is considered to be the mirror of the human body, many of us don’t know this and the fact that most of the systemic diseases is reflected in the mouth and regular oral check-up can help with early diagnosis and its treatment at an early stage could be easy.
SANA PAILA is a non- profitable, non-governmental, oral health oriented community level organization. The NGO has been diligently working on oral health awareness and treatment needs in the marginalized community,
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