3 July 2012 Last updated at 21:25 ET By Irene Caselli Riobamba, Ecuador <\/p>\n
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Patient Jenny Layedra and yachak Mariano Atupana talk about the importance of indigenous treatments <\/p>\n
Dressed in a red poncho and traditional hat, Mariano Atupana stands out among the medical staff at the hospital in the Ecuadorean town of Riobamba. <\/p>\n
But it is not just his dress that makes him different. <\/p>\n
Mr Atupana is a yachak, a medicine man, who uses burning candles and egg yolks to help diagnose ailments. <\/p>\n
Yachaks normally see patients in villages in Ecuador's Andes mountains. <\/p>\n
But Mr Atupana examines them in a room at Riobamba's Alternative Andean Hospital - a private institution where Western and Andean medicine are practised side by side. <\/p>\n
This hospital is one of a number of pioneering projects in Ecuador which are bringing together different types of healthcare. <\/p>\n
Patient Jenny Layedra, 44, has come to the hospital because she has been feeling physically weak and tired, and suffering with headaches. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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