OSORNO, Chile (AP) The largest public hospital in the southern Chilean city of Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate indigenous health practices, a move they say is restoring a crucial spiritual component to health care.
With an 'intercultural delivery room' and protocols for doctors to OK herbal treatments, a public hospital in Chile is incorporating Indigenous medicine.
Giovanna Dell’orto OSORNO, CHILE (AP) – In labour with her first child last month, Lucia Hernández Rumian danced around her hospital room while her husband played the kultrun, a ritual drum. She turned down pain medication from the hospital’s staff to get massages and oil rubdowns instead from her cultural liaison, who had ceremonially purified […]
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