A/HRC/11/11 page 16 62. Nevertheless, complaints have been received of the failure to adapt the national education system to the traditional indigenous cultures and world view, and of the poor results achieved to date. According to the World Bank, school performance was 12 per cent lower among indigenous children than among non-indigenous children, and the average increase for each year of schooling is lower among indigenous than among non-indigenous children. 3. The right to health 63. It is calculated that 80 per cent of the indigenous population does not have access to health facilities. Among the causes for the indigenous population’s limited access to health services is social exclusion, including factors of both discrimination and self-exclusion on the basis of indigenous origin. 64. The new Government has promoted a policy of “intercultural health”, whose components include the adaptation of public health services to traditional indigenous medicine, including the strengthening of traditional medicine and the use of traditional plants. For its part, the Vice-Ministry of Traditional Medicine and Interculturalism, which comes under the Ministry of Health, has promoted a series of agreements with indigenous organizations aimed at incorporating and facilitating access to traditional indigenous medicine and to supporting the National Council on Indigenous Health. The Government has also promoted the inclusion of practices that respect indigenous women’s customs relating to childbirth in the context of hospital care. H. The persistence of racism 65. One of the most worrying human rights issues in Bolivia at the present time is the persistence of manifestations of racism against indigenous people. The social and political situation in the past few years has led to a resurgence of racially discriminatory expressions and practices in the country, often having to do with historical and geographical polarization between the Andean region and the lowlands of the northern and eastern parts of the country. 66. In the course of his visit, the Special Rapporteur was concerned to note the prevalence of manifestations of racism against indigenous persons in the public discourse. Racist insults and attacks are aimed at indigenous persons at every level, from indigenous members of the Government and of the Constituent Assembly to ordinary indigenous peasant women in big cities. These racist attacks are also aimed at the most visible symbols of indigenous identity, as evidenced by the burning of whipalas (indigenous flags) in demonstrations organized by sectors opposed to the current Administration. 67. Much of the responsibility for the rise of racist discourse in contemporary Bolivian society lies with certain social and political sectors in the eastern departments, including political parties and various civil pressure groups. These groups sometimes accompany their demands for autonomy and their legitimate claims in a democratic society by a lack of respect for the predominantly indigenous population and its equally legitimate aspirations to overcome the injustices to which it has historically been subjected.