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President Luis Arce participated this Friday in the launching of the fairs ‘United against COVID-19’ of exhibition of national products and revaluation of traditional medicine.
“We know of the work they have been doing throughout the last year’s pandemic,” the president said addressing a group of naturists, artisans and micro-entrepreneurs who organized a small show in the hall of the Casa Gran de the town.
A large part of the Bolivian population resorted to ancestral medicine to deal with the coronavirus due to the health crisis that marked the management of | Áñez, who disqualified the use of medicinal plants.
“It was very clear to us the mistake of the de facto government when it disqualified our traditional medicine and our ancestral products used to fight many diseases,” Arce said.
To the health crisis was added the lack of supply of medicines and biosecurity supplies, which opened the space for many artisans to make white-faced, face protection masks and biosecurity suits, among other products.
“Our full support and commitment not only with the goal that you are raising, to generate and make available to the population (traditional medicine and Bolivian products), but also the support and commitment to increase their production volumes “, emphasize the Head of State.
For his part, the Minister of Productive Development and Plural Economy, Néstor Huanca, said that the organizations of traditional doctors, artisans and peasant producers will be able to exhibit their products in different parts of the country through the fairs’ United against COVID -19 ‘.
“There is a network of promotion and support,” Arce said. The Government has enabled more than 70 marketing points for products that help strengthen the immune system in the face of the threat of the coronavirus.
Huanca also highlighted the traveling fairs that will have for the promotion of eucalyptus, chamomile, mastic, fugira fugirà, molle and kea kea, among other plants and medicinal products.
“We will spare no effort to assist in the prevention and containment of this pandemic. Bolivia produces and consumes ours, we will move forward,” he said.