On October 3, 2011, K-MET launched a Dental Clinic at the Corkran Health Center.  The Dental Clinic is a partnership between K-MET and WMI, (World Ministries International).  WMI is an NGO that is affiliated with the Nairobi Dental Clinic.

Dr. Michael Hyodo, DDS is the dentist who worked with K-MET to establish the dental clinic.  Dr. Hyodo and his team, through WMI donated all of the equipment to the clinic and is providing all of the necessary dental supplies. The Dental Clinic has a COHO (Community Oral Health Officer) who works under the supervision of Dr. Hyodo. The primary purpose of the dental clinic is to provide high quality, low cost affordable dental care to K-MET’s target population – specifically those people living in Obunga, and other Kisumu urban slums including Nyamasarya, Manyatta, and Nyalenda in order to help improve their health.

Monica Oguttu, K-MET Executive Director stated that “with the addition of the Dental Clinic, K-MET has been able to fulfill a very important health need in the community, and the services of the Dental Clinic will significantly improve health, especially that of children as the Dental Clinic staff teaches about proper oral health and nutrition in order to make sure that children’s teeth and oral health are properly cared for.” The Dental Clinic costs are very affordable and much below market rates, and there is a sliding scale to make sure that no one is turned away. 

On October 18, 2011 the first ever Children’s Dental Camp was held in Kisumu by the K-MET / WMI Dental Clinic.   On the first day almost 150 students from the Josana Academy in Tom Mboya, Kisumu were examined.  The children were from Classes 1,2, and 3.  Each group of children was given a talk on proper oral health, and the results of their examinations were given to the children to bring to their parents.  The children were also give a brochure on basic oral health care, and a flyer about the dental clinic to bring home.

Many of the children were found to have problems and were encouraged to return to the dental clinic to have treatment.

After the rest all of the Josana Academy students are examined, the dental clinic will examine about 200 children from a nursery school in Obunga, an urban slum adjacent to K-MET and then will continue to bring other schools in for checkups. The children’s examinations are at no cost.