47 Yanomami children are hospitalized in Roraima; 29 in the last week alone.
The federal government has declared a state of emergency in Yanomami territory.
247 - The Municipal Health Department of Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima, reported that 47 children of the Yanomami indigenous ethnicity are hospitalized at the city's Children's Hospital, the only health unit in the state that attends to medium and high complexity pediatric cases. According to the department, 29 of these patients were admitted last week. information These are from the UOL portal.
Bolsonaro transferred funds intended for the Yanomami to an evangelical NGO.
The main illnesses among patients are: diarrhea and acute gastrointestinal disease, severe malnutrition, pneumonia, malaria, and snakebites.
The federal government has declared a state of emergency in Yanomami territory. According to the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, 570 children of this ethnic group have died from mercury poisoning and famine, allegedly caused by the "impact of illegal mining in the region."
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