mcdxciiad: There are 241 cases on the Navajo Nation. Covid-19 demands a cooperation between traditio
mcdxciiad: There are 241 cases on the Navajo Nation. Covid-19 demands a cooperation between traditional and western medicine to stop its spread to others in our nation. This isn’t the first time both forms of medicine cooperated. It occurred in the 1960s. It isn’t by chance that the person who lead this cooperation was a Diné woman. Annie Dodge Wauneka, a Navajo leader, became the Chair of the Health and Welfare section of the Community Services Committees in the 1950s. She worked to expand tribal control to mitigate spread of viruses and diseases, pressed for more hospitals to be built in the Navajo Nation, and challenged traditional medicine practitioners to work with western medicine. As a result, material conditions improved for Diné people. Now is the time for all types of medicine to work together and that includes not alienating either form of medicine when mitigating the spread of the coronavirus. Update: there are over 1500 cases of COVID-19 on the Navajo Nation now. -- source link
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