By Wade Zaglas For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 05:20 GMT, 20 February 2019 | Updated: 05:22 GMT, 20 February 2019
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Aboriginal healers using traditional bush medicine have been hired to treat Indigenous patients in an Adelaide public hospital.
The traditional healers - known as Ngangkari - will work alongside doctors and nurses to provide a 'complementary' treatment, Lyell McEwin Hospital staff said.
Cancer survivor Rosyln Weetra, 70, said the initiative would help Aboriginal people.
Traditional healers - called Ngangkari - use a mix of breath, touch and bush medicine to heal (stock pic)
The Narungga Country woman was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2002 and sought traditional medical help from her brother in Port Augusta.
'It gave me a strength that I didn't know I
