Palliative therapeutic alternatives used in COVID-19 for Kichwa population from the Pacayacu community
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COVID-19, palliative care, treatment, alternative medicineAbstract
The objective of this work is to present the palliative therapeutic alternatives used in the face of COVID-19 that have been adopted among several, one of the most outstanding communities of the Pastaza province located in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, is Pacayacu, which includes the Kichwa nationality in the Sarayaku parish and has maintained a constant struggle for the protection of the environment and for the dissemination of its customs, traditions and worldview. A quali-quantitative study was carried out to understand the demography, ethnography and geographical situation of Sarayaku, in addition, members of the community were interviewed in order to know the therapies, the process, properties and benefits of the therapies, as well as 223 people of the province to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the disclosure of the treatments.
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