The Parents Association called on the Ministry of Health and Finance, the Health Insurance Fund, and the Dental Chamber to urgently publicly answer whether a child, pregnant woman, person with disabilities... can go to the dentist and receive free dental care today, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.
"We also inform them that parents and children should not be interested in their mutual bickering and conflicts, but rather want to know when and where they can receive free dental services to which they are legally entitled, and they cannot wait until the end of this week or any other week. We have no doubt that it is difficult to find common ground and satisfy the interests of both parties when it comes to this topic, because it is widely known how many problems there are in the field of dental care for vulnerable categories of the population, which have not been resolved for years and which directly affect the quality of the service," the Parents Association announced.
They emphasize that this is not a justification for interruptions in the provision of free dental services.
"We would also like to remind you that there was a recent interruption in the provision of these services for some citizens while a kind of boycott of dental offices that have a contract with the Health Insurance Fund was underway. During that period, parents informed us that dentists were returning their children with the explanation that a strike was underway. And then, there was no official notification from the competent institutions. We emphasize that in previous years, the public has been repeatedly informed, even from the institutions of the system, that the oral health of our children is at an extremely poor level and that something urgently needs to change, especially when it comes to prevention," the statement reads.
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