According to a publication in the Official Gazette, the President of Brazil, Luis Inácio Lula Da Silva, created a coordination committee to combat the lack of assistance to the Yanomami indigenous community. The indigenous reserve is a vast territory of almost ten million hectares and where more than 30,400 people currently live, according to official data.
The Brazilian government declared a state of health emergency in the Yanomami indigenous reserve, the largest in that country, due to the lack of medical care for its population, which suffers from cases of child malnutrition and malaria.
The Head of State, Luis Inácio Lula Da Silvacreated a coordination committee to combat the lack of assistance to that indigenous community and is expected to visit the region on January 21 to find out the status of the children, according to a publication in the Official Gazette on the night of Friday, January 20.
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The health emergency declaration was signed by the Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade, who will also set up a public health emergency operations center to “plan, organize, coordinate and control” the measures taken to resolve the situation.
“We will add all efforts to guarantee life and overcome this crisis,” said the progressive president on his social networks.
The leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) will be accompanied by the Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sônia Guajajara, who warned about the “humanitarian” and “sanitary” crisis facing the Yanomami, also hit by the strong presence of informal miners, mainly gold diggers.
The Yanomami indigenous reserve is a vast territory of almost 10 million hectares and where more than 30,400 people currently live, according to official data.
In the 1990s, the Yanomami lost a fifth of their population to diseases imported by informal miners, whose work Bolsonaro, a defender of the exploitation of the natural resources of the Amazon, tried to legalize.
Lula promised that during his term, which will run until January 4, 2027, he will protect indigenous peoples and end the destruction in the Amazon rainforest, which reached record levels of deforestation under Bolsonaro in power.
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