article states that indigenous individuals have the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and that states shall take the necessary steps with a view to achieving progressively the full realization of this right indigenous peoples have the right to their traditional medicines and to maintain their health practices including the conservation of their vital medicinal plants animals and minerals article of this law entitles indigenous people to free medical care in state and municipal health care facilities within the framework of the programme of state guarantees for mandatory health insurance as described above the legal framework is comprehensive and includes specific provisions for indigenous peoples access to health services the first framework focus is on the core elements of the right to health the second on the core elements of health care access and the third on the determinants of indigenous health