Overview
- The Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios formally approved the first Indigenous traditional medicine consultorio in Mexico, which became fully operational at the IMSS-Bienestar Hospital in Vícam Switch this month.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum inaugurated the Sonora facility on July 12 under the Plan de Justicia para el Pueblo Yaqui with over 700 million pesos invested in 30 beds, a neonatal unit and 56 medical specialists.
- The hybrid care model allows patients to receive allopathic treatments, ancestral Yaqui herbal remedies and ritual cleansings in coordinated consultations.
- At least five Yaqui parteras join doña Panchita to provide culturally tailored prenatal and birth care within the institutional framework.
- Plant-based remedies administered by the consultorio now target chronic ailments and methamphetamine withdrawal symptoms among Yaqui youth.