He Government of Bolivia tries to encourage the use of traditional medicine as a resource to deal with covid-19, with an exhibition of these products on Friday at home at Government in La Pawith.
In his speech, the President of the country, Luis Arce, highlighted the value natural products of ancestral use as well eucalyptus, wheel wheel, sheets of dough, el soft o la manzanilla, among others, in order to “be able to resist the attack of the coronavirus”.
Arce emphasized the importance of knowledge “Cultural roots“Among these elements, which, as he said, are often in the field and in economically disadvantaged sectors are ‘primary medicine’ to save lives.
Exact, at the fair in the main hall of the house of Government in La Paz Several manufacturers and specialists in traditional medicine have shown their packaged products, treatments and recommended doses for use in different conditions.
A big part of that drug based mainly on herbage It has been presented in liquid extracts, infusions, fertilizers or ointments with specific properties, as established by the customs. Community in the regions of the country.
The President stressed that both Conventional medicine as traditional “are absolutely complementary and useful” for the prevention and cure of diseases, especially in times like now, when “coronavirus cases are widespread.”
During a short meeting with promoters of traditional medicine, Arce pledged his government’s support for the dissemination of healing properties and their increased production alternative.
Bolivia faces what many have called a the second wave of infections with almost 2,000 cases reported per day, which has not happened since July and August last year and which began in the last days of December.
The new coronavirus it even affected defense ministers, Edmundo Novillo, and foreign, Rogelio Mayta, in the recent period of contagion.
Since the first cases were detected in March 2020, the country, with over eleven million inhabitants, has accumulated 9,304 deaths and 168,891 confirmed infections.