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President Luis Arce participated this Friday in the launching ceremony of the “United against COVID-19” fairs for the exhibition of national products and the re-evaluation of traditional medicine.
“We know about the work they did during the pandemic last year,” said the president, addressing a group of naturopaths, craftsmen and micro-entrepreneurs who organized a small exhibition in the Casa Grande del Pueblo.
A large part of the Bolivian population has resorted to ancestral medicine to deal with coronavirus due to the health crisis that marked the administration of Jeanine Áñez, who disqualified the use of medicinal plants.
“The de facto government’s mistake was very clear to us when it disqualified our traditional medicine and our ancestral products used to fight many diseases,” Arce said.
Added to the health crisis was the lack of supplies of medicines and consumables for biosecurity, which opened up space for many artisans to make napkins, face masks and biosecurity suits, among other products.
“Our full support and commitment not only to the goal you are proposing, to generate and make available to the population (traditional medicine and Bolivian products); the head of state stressed.
For his part, the Minister of Productive Development and Plural Economy, Néstor Huanca, said that the organizations of traditional doctors, craftsmen and peasant producers will be able to exhibit their products in different parts of the country through the “United against COVID-19” fairs.
“There is a network of promotion and support,” Arce said. The government has allowed more than 70 outlets to help strengthen the immune system against the threat of coronavirus.
Huanca also highlighted the itinerant fairs that will take place to promote eucalyptus, chamomile, mático, huira huira, molle and kea kea, among other plants and medicinal products.
“We will not make efforts to help prevent and limit this pandemic. Bolivia produces and consumes what is ours, we will move forward,” he said.