The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted access to dental care and routine immunizations for many children and a new report from Toronto’s top doctor says that the city needs to work with the province to create a plan to address the backlog.
, which will be considered by Toronto’s Board of Health today, takes a wider look at the various impacts that the pandemic has had on children, including their mental health.
De Villa also says that the pandemic resulted in a significant curtailing of Toronto Public Health’s dental screening program in schools. She said that in 2018-2019 the school-based clinics helped identify 29,000 students who had urgent or non-urgent tooth decay requiring dental care but over the two year span of the pandemic the number of students who were able to access Toronto Public Health dental clinics was just over 3,600, resulting a “significant service gap.
In addition to the suspension of many school-based vaccine clinics, de Villa said that the pandemic has also left Toronto Public Health with limited resources to conduct “an assessment of routine vaccinations among childcare centre attendees and students for three consecutive school years.” Going forward, she said that Toronto Public Health will work with school boards to offer routines vaccines alongside COVID-19 vaccines in high schools.
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