Today, A Promise of Health is busy in Oaxaca, Mexico working in 5 rural Zapotecan communities. We call our project a Medicine Wheel, based upon the belief of Native Americans that a Medicine Wheel is spiritually powerful and a strong healing symbol. We began our Oaxaca Medicine Wheel on April 19, 2010. Since that time, several thousand people have sought medical help in our clinics. The response has been astonishing! Each week more patients crowd our clinics than the doctor can see.                

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We began our work in 2001 in the rural villages of Yucatan where the Mayan people live in abject poverty. There, A Promise of Health developed its innovative program of healthcare that when reproduced in other locations in rural Mexico can revolutionize the delivery of medical services for these poor people.

From the 2001 up to 2008, A Promise of Health placed Mexican homoeopathic doctors in 25 municipalities in rural Yucatan. During that time the doctors treated an incredible number of patients each day. In the nine years, APOH doctors saw more than 65,000 patients! Using portable pharmacies, they not only diagnosed and prescribed, but also they gave medicine to their patients.

 Also, our doctors teach hygiene, personal health and nutrition to village children and in the schools, we promote the planting of family gardens to provide healthy and nutritious diets.

Unique to our Medicine Wheel program is our requirement that each doctor lives in the community that he or she serves. Incredible as this may sound, this is the first time that has happened for some time in Mexico’s rural areas! Our doctors are a part of the communities they serve.

 A Promise of Health has clearly shown that healthcare doesn't have to be out of reach for Mexico’s rural poor who comprise a shocking 76% of its population.

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