Can this teenager still be saved?
The Quechua boy was suffering from a serious soft-tissue infection. As a result of the resulting blood poisoning, the circulatory system carried inflammatory blood clots into the pulmonary circulation. Gensis’s life hung by a thread. His brother consulted a shaman in the area. “Offer two meals to the mountain gods (Apus)!” That was the shaman’s recommendation. And then he said menacingly, “If your brother goes to the hospital, he will die!”
Precious time was lost because of the medicine man’s curse. Finally, the parents took the sick boy to the emergency room. The fight for his life lasted an entire month. He survived the critical phase in the intensive care unit and his stay at Hospital Diospi Suyana. It was the combination of prayer and state-of-the-art medicine that brought about the breakthrough. Yesterday, he was discharged home. The curse of the curandero (healer) was no match for the Hospital of Faith. /KDJ
(Caption: Pediatricians Dr. Martina John and Dr. Christian Reibold, along with patient Gensi (16). /KDJ
