Ancestral Medicine and Modern Medicine Care Center (CASAMA)

The condition of vulnerability that currently befalls the indigenous population has led it to be at risk. One of the causes of this risk that these communities are facing today is the high burden of communicable diseases due to limited access to adequate health services. Our main objective is to create a center based on the exchange of knowledge between traditional medicine and modern medicine, where we seek to guarantee greater social inclusion, offering the possibility of greater access to health services for this community. For the development of this project, three work phases have been proposed: approach and adaptation, the care phase, and the legal transfer to beneficiaries and those who will ultimately oversee its administration and general operation. We are now on the first phase. We have begun by building a main “Tambo” where patients will be evaluated by previously trained indigenous leaders. It is intended to be a self-sustaining project, carefully designed to meet the requirements necessary for the basic provision of low-complexity health services. We are more concerned with the prevention of disease than with its subsequent treatment and focused on giving the community the tools needed for self-care, management, and promotion.