Many of our readers report that Ecuador health care is so inexpensive that they do not need health insurance.   Because of this Ecuador health insurance is not expensive.

There are many ways to be healthier in Ecuador.  Many ancient healing practices are regularly used.  Here is Steve with two shamans at a healing spring near Cotacachi.

For those aged 45 to 64 Ecuador health insurance costs for unlimited coverage is about $30 a month. Medicines, albeit generic, are free.

Ecuador health insurance for those aged 65 or over rises to $75 per month.

This Ecuador health insurance is offered by a company new to Ecuador but it has been established in Colombia since 1969. This company is the largest health insurance company in that country of 44 million people. It is the 10th largest company of any kind in that country and has a work force that numbers more than 15,000 employees. In short it’s a very well established health insurance company.

It is easier to get fresh food in Ecuador, a land of year round abundance. Here is a typical market scene.

Non Ecuadorians are accepted for Ecuador health insurance by simply showing their passport as identification.  At this moment from my conversation this afternoon it is not clear whether you need to be a resident in Ecuador or not. The sales manager I spoke to suggested it is not necessary but I would like to see written confirmation.

Folks 65 or older need to take out a pre-acceptance exam that focuses on brain, bone and cardiac health as well as blood, urine and faeces tests.

I asked if pre-existing conditions are covered. The answer was, “yes if not too serious”, and certain restrictions apply.

For example, somebody with elevated cholesterol levels would be accepted into this Ecuador health insurance but somebody who has cholesterol levels shooting through the roof would not be accepted. In other words this is not a catch all health insurance scheme but it does offer a good choice for those with below average through to good health.

Two days after taking out this Ecuador health insurance, you can obtain at anyone of 5 centers in Ecuador, dentistry, x-rays, laboratory tests, ambulance services and free medicines from the pharmacy. After 1 month hospitalization is covered and after 3 months surgery is covered.

I asked about cancer, heart attacks and strokes. Much to my surprise, all are covered without any ceiling in costs. One hundred percent of the cost is covered. You even don’t have to pay up front and then go through hassle to get the money paid back.

Living in Quito or Guayaquil, Santo Domingo, Machala or Riobamba, coverage is complete. If you live in Cotacachi or elsewhere you are entitled to coverage in local hospitals if you suffer any kind of emergency or accident. For routine checkups or non-emergency treatment you would need to travel to a clinic in one of the above cities.

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Steve

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Turns out that Juan has been here in Cotacachi for 3 years married to a local lady but originally he is from the city of Cajamarca in Peru. There he learnt from his grandfather how to prepare what I call the Aloe Vera drink concoction – otherwise known as sabila here in Cotacachi.

His previous customer urges me “drink it, drink it, it’s really good for you”. How could I say no?When in Cotacachi do as the Cotacacheños do.

Here in Cotacachi he gets up earlier than I care to contemplate to be on the road and selling to early risers at 5am. By midday he’s all done.

Juan buys the aloe vera in Cotacachi but it’s shipped up from the sub-tropical Intag valley just 40 miles away. He buys local honey from the market in Otavalo.

Here’s how he starts, he separates the aloe vera from the green plant using a knife and a rapid scraping action. After he has a fair amount in the bottom of a jug he adds some water. Honey too.

Add to that crushed linseeds too. It’s a pretty viscous solution by now but Juan has a practiced technique – pour it from one jar to another to somehow make it less gooey.

  Just for good measure the stone-breaker plant is added. While Juan is at it he also adds Boldo, a Chilean plant.

All the plants and herbs reputedly promote good intestinal, liver, gall bladder and kidney well-being. Here is what Wikipedia says about the stone-breaker plant called chanca piedra in Spanish.

“The plant has long been used as an herbal remedy for urinary calculi, and has been shown in modern medical research studies to reduce the risks of stones in individuals prone to the condition. Research on the plant continues to determine if it has any other beneficial effects. It may have antiviral activity.”

And about Boldo .. “..In Latin America and Spain, boldo is also used as a form of herbal medicine, particularly to support the gallbladder, but also to calm upset stomachs. In Chile, it is frequently mixed with yerba mate or other teas to moderate its flavor. In Brazil, many families keep a boldo plant at home for this purpose, although boldo teabags are readily available in nearly all supermarkets.”

Then to serve this concoction in a more palliative form Juan heats it using a liitle gas fired burner hidden away inside his ‘seen-better-days’ mobile serving trolley.

And in the interests of promoting the local’s Cotacachi health information here is what Juan claims for his aloe vera drink!! …..

Cures the liver, kidneys, cholesterol, urinary tract and ulcers

And here’s what I say!! It’s surprisingly not bad! The taste is ok and it kind of slimes down your throat quickly enough that I didn’t feel any ill affects.

This is cheap preventative medicine at 50 cents a glass and if it’s effective then who can dispute the value? I’m not sure I want to drink it every day but plenty of folks do and who in the end would argue against the wisdom of the ages handed down from Andean grandfathers for the benefit of all who live in Cotacachi.

Living in or visiting other cultures is always intriguing – see you down here for more shared adventures!

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I say slightly alternative because Sol de Vida belongs to the County health infrastructure and was created to treat [...]

Mariana studied biology and chemistry at the nearby University of Ibarra when she was 20 before moving on to the central university in Quito where she studied general orthodontics.

She had to spend a year in a rural location before she could receive her professional qualification but she was lucky in as much as she spent 6 months in the nearby parish of San Roque and then 6 months in Cotacachi hospital.

Immediately afterwards she opened her own surgery on the main commercial street of Cotacachi, Avenida 10 de Agosto. That was in 1987 and she has been here ever since. Twenty one years service to the community. That makes her an experienced dentist in Cotacachi .. or anywhere.

Well not quite 21 years of service. She did also spend 8 years (2 terms) as a local councillor. She says that being an orthodontist is a great career for a woman because you can work from home and you get to meet all the local community. Meeting the local community she became aware of how she could help in the community as well.

Over the years she had noticed that quite a number of woman in Ecuador suffer from violence in the home. She set out to correct that situation with other supporters and using the support of international aid organizations, NGOs and also National organizations she was able to generate enough help to set up a small support center in Cotacachi for any women who need help.

She is still involved in social action and now is trying to set up a shelter for women and children who have been abandoned, with the aim of also teaching the women a new skill so they can be independent.

Still, this experienced dentist in Cotacachi still loves her profession after all these years. She has a huge smile for all her patients …

Her prices are very reasonable. Checkups are free. Cavities can be replaced at $7 for an amalgam filling, $15 for porcelain fillings.

A porcelain crown would be $110. A complete set of dentures using poli-chroming would set you back $390. A cleaning of all teeth is $15 and a whitening using regular technique is just $40. Her hours of opening are 8am-1pm and 2.30pm – 7pm.

At these prices the savings are considerable if you are paying full price in the USA. We pass on this Cotacachi medical information about experienced dentists, doctors and medical facilities so you can plan some treatment while you are in Ecuador attending a seminar or vacationing.

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The hospital was founded in 1977 as a county hospital similar to others all over Ecuador. Since then it has expanded physically and also offers more services. The man in charge is Doctor Oscar Castillo.

Cotacachi county is divided into 14 parishes and some of these parishes are 80 miles away 7,000 feet lower in a tropical environment. Different illnesses down there for sure that don’t even exist in the mountains. Each parish has one or two health centers. Dr. Castillo has quite a responsibilty but standing over 6 foot tall and with a ramrod back he does exude an air of quiet authority.

Cotacachi hospital has both a vision and mission statement. The vision statement is telling of the ambition and pride everyone attached to the hospital feels.

“To convert Cotacachi into a healthy county in which the multi-ethnic peoples live in social, spiritual, material and environmental harmony exercising shared rights and responsabilities in a participative democracy applying principles and values of equality and solidarity prioritizing the promotion of health with universal access to health services of warmth and quality using both western and traditional knowledge and practices.”

Cotacachi hospital is funded by the Ministry of Health based in Quito and as such ALL services are free. This is quite remarkable in a supposedly “third world country” but the reality is that Ecuador better fits the description of an “emerging country”.

There are doctors providing consultations to the local citizens, a specialist childrens doctor. Services include vaccinations, pregnancy care and general medical practice.

There are four emergency doctors who treat burns and injuries from accidents and also an operating theater with a general surgeon.

Staff nurses are ready to attend the patients in the wards, separated into those for men, women and children.

Operations performed at the Cotacachi hospital include appendectomies, hysterectomies, removal of the gall bladder and treating hernias. All of these are free to all who show up including non-Ecuadorians. The lady sat on the seat against the wall below had just had an hysterectomy hours before this photo was taken…

There is a dental center, again offering free dental attention …

and also a testing laboratory where they can run tests on blood, urine and faeces to test for cholesterol and psa levels or even parasites…

Cotacachi hospital does not treat broken bones nor patients who’ve suffered a heart attack or stroke. These patients are rushed by ambulance to city hospitals or clinics in nearby Ibarra. Or they are brought to Cotacachi hospital to be stabilzed before being transferred to other clinics.
The ambulance service is free too including transfer to other hospitals or clinics, even as far away as Quito (75 miles).

This series of Cotacachi medical information posts are written with the aim to anwer such pre-travel questions as “…but what happens if you get sick?”.

Of course we hope you won’t get sick here but it’s nice to know you are covered just in case you do. Most people get healthier. Take Lee, a friend of ours who is doing some re-modelling work on the museum next door. He has lost 24lbs in 4 months … and let me tell you .. Lee was already slim. “I’m down to just 4lbs more than when I finished military service over 30 years ago” he tells me incredulously.

From what I saw today at Cotacachi hospital their vision statement is well on the way to being fulfilled, but eating healthy non-processed foods grown in natural environments goes a long way to keeping us all healthy down here. Come see for yourselves and lose weight as you enjoy healthy nutritious food.

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I seemingly have some issues with my liver and small intestine. The following day after that test Doctor Vaca came to visit me in Meson de las Flores again. His consulting office is real close by in Calle Bolivar http://http//www.ecuadorliving.com/2008/04/09/cotacachi-street-life.html .

We went up to our Serendipity room at El Meson which is used for masages and infra-red saunas and now Doctor Vaca treatments! Out of his kit bag came a machine called a Cell Spa. Apparently they are relatively common in the USA but I hadn’t seen one before.

They are used with an oscillator, mineral salts and a foot bath. Here’s what happens:- You put your feet in the clear transparent water. You sit back and listen to relaxing music while the machine works for 30 minutes. Meanwhile the opposite of osmosis is taking place.

After about 5 minutes – watch that water color

Our feet are able to emit toxins and so the machine is literally sucking the toxins out of my body. The good Doctor has all the instructions in Spanish. If you remember from yesterday’s article my liver showed up as having some alterations and lack of functionality. In Spanish, the word for liver is ‘higado’.

So the experience is pleasant enough. But look at the results! Look at the color of the water now. It’s brown with an oily film on top and a brown residue on the bath at the level of the water.

It’s dirty and smelly!

And boy did that water ever smell foul. I asked Mauricio, our night-time administrator, to take a whiff and he very nearly had to run to the bathroom. It stunk of metals and methane. And that stuff was inside of me ???

Now look at the chart below and remember what the Spanish word for ‘liver’ is – higado right? There below is the chart clearly showing the relationship between a brown liquid at the end of the therapy and ‘higado’. This corresponds to what I learnt on the previous day’s diagnosis.

Marron means brown and negro means black.
The corresponding words are largely self explanatory!

I believe this Cotacachi medical information from Doctor Vaca will prove invaluable for me and many others too. I shall certainly be having more detoxification sessions with the doctor until that water is a little more clearer.

This treatment can easily be incorporated into any stay at Meson de las Flores and of course can be supplemented by a massage at the nearby relais and chateau rated La Mirage spa and hosteria.

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One such treatment Doctor Vaca uses is a Russian software and hardware developed recently that uses the measurement of pain at acupuncture points to detect how well our internal organs and systems are doing.

Doctor Vaca sets up the Russian software/hardware at El Meson

This is preventative therapy at it’s best because it literally ‘red flags’ mal-functioning organs months and years ahead of when any symptoms may appear. I particularly like the quote on the company’s literature:-

” A wise man treats not those who are sick but those who are in good health.
His role is not in trying to suppress rebellion but in maintaining the proper order.
Treatment of sick, in situation when the rebellion is at its height, reminds behavior
of the person waiting for the thirst to start digging the well…”
Chinese treatise Su Wen Nei Jing

Acupuncture meridians which are connected to and named after organs reach the skin at acupuncture points – these are biologically active points.  The health of our organs is reflected in the activity/vitality of the meridian (energy channel) that runs to the organ. In turn the activity of the meridian is reflected by the sensitivity of the acupuncture points. Ah-hah … now I see where those needles come into play.

Doctor Vaca starts measuring the acupuncture points on my hands

The activity of the various acupuncture points (and therefore the activity of the meridian and health of the related organ) is defined by the pain sensitivity at the place of the acupuncture point location. Doctor Vaca’s software uses complicated algorithms to measure pain applied to the acupuncture points on our toes and fingers using an infra-red emitting diode.

It’s really not painful at all. You just feel a warmth – then heat – and then a mild discomfort as it gets hotter. You shout “ya” which means ‘now’ (and is quicker and easier to say than “ahora”) and he clicks the mouse and your level of sensitivity for that acupuncture point gets transmitted to the software.

You can see on the screen that each acupuncture point relates to different organs

So here we find alternative Cotacachi medical information available from a Russian trained doctor who regularly visits Meson de las Flores.

The feet are tested as well

Dozens of visitors to Meson de las Flores have received this treatment. It lasts for about 90 minutes to two hours and includes a discussion of the findings and a copy of the findings (in English) on a cd delivered in the following days.

Red is not good, white, green and blue is better!

A chart diagram showing my liver and related organs are out of whack!
This is a good wake up call to get off the coffee!

My readings showed up a disturbing lack of functionality in the liver, probably attributable to too much coffee drinking and not enough exercise. The coffee I will only very reluctantly give up but living in Cotacachi there is no excuse not to get out in the freshest air you’ll encounter anywhere and walk the miles of country lanes that run out to little indigenous communities. Here below is my favorite picture (taken by Dennis Goff) of a nearby country lane.

The good news is that Doctor Vaca has a new treatment available now which can actually purify the body as well. Get more Cotacachi medical information and read about other alternative health treatments in tomorrow’s post.

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Doctor Fabian Vaca outside Meson de las Flores

  Indeed, not much medical information is available from Ecuador or other Latin countries. Yet, just because not much information is available that most definitely does NOT mean that there is a lack of health infrastructure in Ecuador or Cotacachi and nearby towns and cities.

  In El Meson we have a list of dentists and doctors who we can call up and make an appointment on your behalf for a consultation or treatment. Most of the treatments are many many times cheaper (maybe the average is six times cheaper) than at home and some are surprisingly alternative. They just not are easily available at home.

  No Cotacachi medical information would be complete with out introducing the doctors and dentists who provide Cotacachi healthcare. My favorite is Doctor Vaca. With good reason I call him the “laughing doctor”. I have never seen him carry out his work in state of mind other than good humor.

  I first heard of this when our long-time friend and reader, Micky Enright, accompanied him to the local old people’s home run by the local nuns. There he showed boundless compassion and enthusiasm as he entered the main lounge by actually taking a spin on an impromptu dance floor with all the ladies who were able to stand and move a little.

Doctor Vaca at the old folks home in Cotacachi

  Doctor Vaca has also treated patients at El Meson too. In one case, someone who surely should not have travelled down here had a pre-existing condition that took a turn for the worse. I translated between the doctor and the patient and as the patient vomited blood, to my un-trained eyes I believed he might even die.

  But Doctor Vaca calmly went about analysing and then treating our client. The care was very professional and caring  and the patient was stabilised using drugs administered via a drip. He then came back three times a day to check on the patient’s progress and was always just a cell phone call away.

  There was no hospitalization and I believe the final bill including all medicines was less than $60. For the patient this was a very unfortunate condition he was accustomed to living with but his wife was extremely concerned. Needless to say after the patient stabilized his wife was immensely grateful and relieved.

  Doctor Vaca was born in Cotacachi in 1952. When he was 19 he took the very unusual turn of heading off to was was then the Soviet Union and now is the Ukraine to study medicine. This has had a profound influence on his subsequent believes because although he studied to be a conventional doctor his studies exposed him to research and education in camps such as energy medicine.

  His first year was spent on preparatory studies and learning Russian in the city of Kharkov. Then in 1972 he began six years of studies at the A.A. Bogomolets National Medical University, named after one of Russia’s most famous pathologists.

Bogomolets National Medical University, Kiev, Ukraine

 When he returned to Ecuador Doctor Vaca, in common with all other Ecuadorian junior doctors, had to give a year’s service in a rural community. At that time, Cotacachi was a rural community and in fact I know another dentist from Quito who was sent to Cotacachi but Doctor Vaca was instead sent in 1978 to a small community deep in the Amazon rain forest!

  After a year there he went to the southern city of Loja in order for his Russian medical title to be re-evaluated so he could receive his Ecuadorian license to practice. Then he had to serve a residence term. This was done in the government clinic at Atuntaqui, a small town just 20 minutes away from Cotacachi. Spep by step, year by year, he was getting closer to his beloved Cotacachi.

  Finally, in 1982, 11 years after travelling as a 19 year old youth to Ukraine he was able to start his own private medical practice here in Cotacachi. Since then Doctor Fabian Vaca has been worked from his own consulting office in Cotacachi and also provided private medical care at the Cotacachi’s old folks home, to 100+ workers at a rose plantation and also the workers at a nearby turkey farm.

Doctor Vaca with a worker at nearby Rose plantation suffering from headaches

Doctor Vaca hasn’t forgotten about helping the community and he still travels once a week to treat an indigenous community on the shores of Lake Mojanda at 10,000 feet.

  Doctor Vaca is a wealth of Cotacachi medical information and much of that has been acquired providing public service as well as private practice. From 1994 to 2002 he worked at Cotacachi hospital and was the Director of the hospital for 4 years. He was also the director of the hospital at Otavalo between 2002 and 2005 where he specialised in peadiatrics.

  Dr.Vaca still has contacts with his student friends in Russia. This was how he was able to acquire software and machinery from a Russian organization that works using acupuncture points and variable thermo-algometry to detect dysfunctions of internal organs and systems and weak parts of regulation.

  Many, many readers who have stayed at El Meson have had this diagnosis with Doctor Vaca which serves as excellent preventative medicine. He also gives recommendations at the end of the diagnosis.  Discover more Cotacachi medical information in upcoming posts including how you can see into the future to discover how your health may be in the months and years ahead.

Doctor Vaca diagnosing the state of my organ functionality

  Those people coming on courses and seminars can pre-book to see Doctor Vaca and other specialists here in Cotacachi and Ibarra. In many cases the money you can save on dental treatment or scans or preventative medicine can pay for your entire trip!

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Watchout in upcoming posts for a more detailed analysis of what is available but today let us take an overview of what is available in this charming village.

  For a small rural village of 5,000 people there are a number of doctors and dentists, a community hospital, alternative health center, 2 clinical laboratories for testing samples of blood and urine etc., and also a hard to track down (but I’m working on it) French chiropractor.

 Below is the hospital which is on Calle Pedro Moncayo just slightly out of the center of the town. You can see a map of Cotacachi here http://www.ecuadorliving.com/2008/04/02/cotacachi-street-map.html

Here is Doctor Albuja outside of his house. His consulting room is just 3 blocks away from Meson de las Flores.

Below is the consulting office of Doctor Teran in Avenida 10 de Agosto. Next door in the same building is a clinic.

And below is a dentist, not the one we normally recommend but another, who has her small dental clinic in 10 de Agosto as well. She charges NOTHING for a checkup and $10 for a cleaning or $40 for a whitening which will last for 30 months unless you drink a lot of coffee she tells me laughingly – she must be a psychic! How’s that for useful Cotacachi medical information?

And here is the home/consulting office of our good friend Doctor Vaca who manages to combine general medicine with Russian energy medicine, he trained as a doctor and graduated in the former Soviet Union but now part of Ukraine.

Just yesterday Dr. Vaca ran me through his Russian energy medicine software program. The results will remain largely private but suffice to say they were amazingly accurate and can also serve as very timely preventative medicine. More on that in another post.

More detailed Cotacachi Medical Information to follow in subsequent posts. In the meantime, we hope to see you in Ecuador and Cotacachi very soon and may you never be in need of any more than a checkup!

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