More than 1,500 people from the rural commune of Aïn Chkef, under the Moulay Yaacoub province, benefited on Tuesday from an awareness, screening, and treatment campaign for oral health conditions.

Initiated by the health directorate of the Fès-Meknès region, this social action focused on consultations for dental caries and other oral health conditions for the benefit of many beneficiaries.

The medical caravan, organized in partnership with the regional health delegation and local authorities, aims, among other things, to promote oral health and raise awareness among the population, particularly students, about oral hygiene.

This social action is part of the implementation of the annual action programme of the regional health directorate intended to bring health care closer to the inhabitants of the rural world, Dr. Hafsa Alaoui M'hamdi, a dental surgeon, told the MAP.

It also falls within the framework of the commemoration of World Oral Health Day, celebrated on 20 March each year, added Dr. Alaoui M'hamdi, specifying that this campaign also focused on the distribution of medicines and oral hygiene kits for the benefit of the inhabitants of Ras El Ma in the rural commune of Aïn Chkef.

This medical campaign, which took place at the headquarters of the Haj Abdelahdi Tajmouâti Foundation for the protection of the elderly, was well received by the inhabitants of the commune.