The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, supports file usage ancestral medicine to fight infection as a method of treatment coronavirus, and urged Bolivians “not to lower their guard” in the face of fears of an outbreak.
“We continue to face pandemics with possible outbreaks in many countries, we have seen it in Europe and we need to be vigilant, we can’t lower our guard“The governor said yesterday during the inauguration of a meeting of indigenous people in the Cochabamba region, the news agency reported Tlam.
Arce, who claims the knowledge and skills of the native peoples, stressed that “we have resorted to those herbs that our brothers he knew ancestral to fight the pandemic and we have done it successfully in the different nationalities and peoples of our Latin America. “
Since the first cases of sick people in the country became known, the indigenous sectors, mainly Aymara and Quechuas, have used various natural products, to which they attribute healing powers. Such products, such as eucalyptus, wira wira and chamomile, are considered antibacterial and expectorant inputs that, according to native shamans, help to create and strengthen the immune system.
In parallel, a neighborhood in the heart of the city Peace began to be subjected today, and for a week, to an epidemiological control, before concentrated regrowth of coronavirus cases. Municipal staff brigades are washing the supply markets in the neighborhood Miraflores, where there is a network of public hospitals, the legendary Hernando Siles stadium and the main offices of the High Command of the Armed Forces.
The region Santa Cruz It has also taken steps to strengthen its health care system, after its government said earlier this week that it was facing a “second wave” of the pandemic.
Bolivia has recorded more than 9,000 deaths since March and about 148,600 people infected with coronavirus.