Yanomami healthcare: staff and funding have tripled, but services remain inadequate
"On June 21, voters in Roraima went to the polls in special elections to decide on replacements for Antonio Denarium and his vice governor, Edilson Damião, who was also removed from office. The winning ticket—with 60.9% of the votes—was formed by Arthur Henrique, who was mayor of Boa Vista, and former city councilmember Subtenente Velton, both members of the Bolsonaro family’s Liberal Party. Henrique was elected governor even though Roraima’s Regional Electoral Court had rejected his candidacy because he failed to meet the legal deadline for stepping down from public office, in this case, that of mayor. The deadline is six months before the election, and he resigned on April 2. His inauguration now depends on a decision by the Superior Electoral Court.
In a state with a large Indigenous population, but where the non-Indigenous elites erect statues to glorify gold mining and would rather see the Forest leveled than remain standing, ensuring the Yanomami people’s right to health care is a tremendously difficult challenge. When this is compounded by the fact that the spread of disease and the lack of healthcare agents in the villages has become a lucrative business for a portion of these same elites, the scale of the challenge increases—and significantly so. The ones who pay with their lives are the Yanomami—especially the children of these original peoples. This outrage must end."
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https://sumauma.com/en/a-batalha-da-saude-pessoal-e-verbas-triplicam-mas-o-atendimento-dos-yanomami-vai-mal/