efe-epaManaus, Brazil
Indigenous Covid field hospital set up in crisis-riddled Manaus
Nursing technician Vanda Ortega, 33, from Witoto people, and the university nursing student Francineldo, an indigenous from the Kokama people, 45 years old, prepare equipment in a warehouse at the Indigenous Support Unit, a field hospital built by native owners in Parque das Tribus, the only indigenous neighborhood in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, 11 February 2021 (issued 12 February 2021). In the midst of the oxygen crisis and the health collapse in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, the residents of an indigenous neighborhood in Manaus, the regional capital, have erected a field hospital for the treatment of natives infected by the coronavirus. EPA/ Raphael Alves