The real info is in the small print
An 85-year-old man with a ruptured gallbladder and a liver abscess (accumulation of pus). A gallstone was also obstructing the lower bile duct. (See arrows above). Dr. Lukas Steffen operated on the Quechua from the mountains and the patient is doing well under the circumstances. Absolute routine. You could say nothing new under the sun.
In the file, however, it is striking that the Quechua call themselves mestizo. Mestizo means “mixed race”, half white, half indigenous. And since the Quechuas have been marginalized for centuries, most of them claim that they are in fact not descendants of the indigenous people (Incas). The Hospital Diospi Suyana wants to help the Quechuas in particular. The name of our facility is Quechua (We trust in God, we wait for God.) Apurimac is the classic Quechua region. Our patient speaks Quechua at home. He looks like a Quechua from a picture book. His neighbors are Quechuas etc., but when he is admitted to the mission hospital, the family denies their origins.
In the travel guides about Peru, the percentage of the indigenous population varies between 25 % and 50 %. A chromosome analysis of all 34 million Peruvians would bring the true percentage of Quechuas, Aymaras and other indigenous ethnic groups closer to 50%. But such a study would be too costly and nobody would pay for it. At the Hospital Diospi Suyana, the proportion of Quechuas is between 60 % and 75 %. A rough estimate, but nothing more, because our data system is also incorrect due to the numerous false statements /KDJ
