Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mexico’s public health system announces the employment of non-licensed ‘healers’ and use of traditional medicines and herbs

Puerto Vallarta (AP) — Health authorities in Mexico said Tuesday they will use more traditional medicine and more Cuban doctors in the country’s woefully under-equipped public hospital system.

Zoe Robledo, the head of Mexico’s largest public hospital network, said at a news conference that the system will hire 753 practitioners of traditional massage and herbal treatments.

The Social Security Institute will also employ “curanderos,” who are non-licensed healers who use bundles of herbs, smoke, alcohol, and eggs to “draw” sickness out of the bodies of their patients.

“Thanks to traditional . . .

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