The Ministry of Health has declared a public health emergency of national importance in view of the need to address the lack of health care for the populations living in the Yanomami territory. An ordinance, signed by Minister Nísia Trindade, was published this Friday 20, in an extra edition of the “Official Gazette”.
The territory has suffered from cases of food insecurity, child malnutrition and lack of access to health care for the population. Also this Friday, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and the Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, announced that they should travel to Roraima, this Saturday 21, to follow the actions in the face of the humanitarian crisis of this population.
According to the ordinance published this Friday, an operations center has been set up to coordinate a rapid response to the emergency scenario identified in the Yanomami territory. Since the beginning of the week, technicians from the Ministry of Health have been visiting indigenous land, where 30,400 people live, to diagnose the living conditions of the local population.
The proposal is to take stock of the situation, identify the requests of the indigenous peoples of the region and establish the actions to be taken so that the Yanomami overcome a scenario of “humanitarian crisis”, as described by Sonia Guajajara herself. According to the minister, 570 Yanomami children “died of hunger during the last government”.
“The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples will take urgent action around this humanitarian crisis imposed against our peoples,” the ministry head said in a post on his Twitter on Friday. “At the request of President Lula, we will visit Yanomami indigenous land tomorrow for an emergency inter-ministerial action. Our Yanomami relatives face a humanitarian and health crisis. It is unacceptable to see our relatives dying of malnutrition and hunger,” added Guajajara.
One of the problems plaguing the region is the continuing armed conflicts with the garimpeiros, whose mining activities on indigenous lands grew by 495% between 2010 and 2020.
Last year, Júnior Hekurari, an indigenous leader, said people in the community had been killed in the midst of these clashes.
The Federal Police, at the time, did not confirm the deaths. Also in 2022, according to the indigenous leader, a 12-year-old Yanomami girl was raped to death by gold miners in the Aracaçá community in the Waikás area.
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