SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government Council of the Canary Islands authorized this Wednesday the extension of the collaboration agreement signed in 2008 between the Canarian Health Service (SCS) and the Official Colleges of Dentists of Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife for the execution of the Care Program Children’s Dental of the Canary Islands (PADICAN). With this authorization, the agreement will be extended, which will last for one more year, until December 31, 2024.
The purpose of PADICAN is to guarantee oral care to the entire child and youth population protected by the Canarian health system, aged 6 to 14 years (both ages included), in the terms set forth in the Resolution of the General Directorate of Assistance Programs. of February 11, 2008 (BOC no. 45, of March 3).
To carry out this care, the aforementioned agreement was signed between the SCS and the Official Associations of Dentists of both provinces, with the following coverage: Oral health care benefits for children aged 6 to 14 years, both ages included. , with the right to health care charged to the SCS and with residence in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands; the services provided for in the Program, carried out in accordance with the collaboration framework established by the parties.
These services include basic services (annual check-ups, fissure sealing, extractions, etc.) and special services, which are carried out exclusively by private dentists affiliated to the agreement (endodontics, major reconstruction after root canals, apicoformation, reimplantations, provisional crown, etc.).
The information related to PADICAN, as well as the list of dentists participating in it, is updated annually and can be consulted by users on the SCS website (www.gobiernodecanarias.org/sanidad/scs), as well as on the websites of the professional associations of both provinces.
