For more efficient and improved dental services, two Mobile Dental Vans are in service.

 

Besides the Dental Clinic at Durgabari, providing free oral hygiene facilities and dental care to the poor residing in the re-settlement colonies of South Delhi, our Health Clinic at Dakshinpuri has been catering to the thickly populated area consisting of very poor and weaker sections of the society.  On an average 10,000 patients are treated there every year. It comprises of Eye Clinic, Physiotherapy Centre, Pathology Lab and free medicines. Testing the eye-sight of school children.  Vocational classes are also being held at the center involving Inner Wheel Club of  Rotary Mid Town and the Rotaract Club of Delhi Midtown.

 

As a Trustee and Chairman of Delhi Mid Town Rotary Service Trust has been involved, in spite of his busy professional schedule and other social commitments, in running a free Dental and Eye Hospital in Delhi’s re-settlement colonies of Trilokpuri and Kalyanpuri, providing immunization against polio and other diseases of the children; family planning facilities; general check-up for expectant mothers; provision of artificial limbs to the handicapped and polio victims; besides free oral hygiene and dental treatment facilities.

 

An Integrated Slum Development Project in the vicinity of the Rotary Eye Hospital is currently providing vocational training to women and girls of this area in vocations like adult education, tailoring classes, family welfare and other useful crafts.  The Rotary Club of Nottingham has been co-sponsoring this project.  With the ongoing project we have been able to achieve 100% immunization against Polio in Trilokpuri.

 

Dr. Bali conducted an all India Oral Health Survey  including survey of epidemiological dental diseases throughout the country with the help of Dental Council of India and the Govt. of India, based on international standards and using the expertise of local and outside Experts, the results of which are useful to equip the dental profession and the policy makers with the data to take informed decisions to shape oral health policy for the country.  The data was simultaneously captured from all parts of the country at a given point of time, serving as a concrete base-line for monitoring the trends, patterns and changes in oral health in the country, over a period of time, which is real, authentic and comparable and part of WHO Global Data Bank on Oral Health.  This has been done primarily in view of the fact  that oral health has been rapidly deteriorating in India.

 

As Founder President of the Society for Education, Action & Research in Community Health (SEARCH) has always been propagating amongst his patients and others, the ill-effects of the age-old habit of tobacco-chewing and smoking, as also the use of preparations like Pan Masalas, Gutkhas, which are known to lead to oral muco-fibrosis and dreaded oral cancer, as shown by recent studies. 

 

Out of every 100 cases of body cancers detected, 30 to 35 percent are found to be oral cancers.  Through his advice large number of chain or casual smokers and chewers of tobacco-based preparations have been successful in getting rid of this bad habit, thereby benefiting passive smokers too.  This has itself been taken up as a project which may motivate other organizations to emulate.