The new unit in the Park of Tribes: mobilization against abandonment / Neto Ramos/Coaib
Manaus, Brazil (Feb. 26, updated March 4) With the public health system collapsing and the oxygen crisis, Amazonas has had more than 290,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the second and worst wave of the pandemic. The crisis has dramatically affected the inhabitants of Park of Tribes, located in the urban zone of Manaus, and, without the support of public authorities, they decided to seek their own solution. And so the Health Support Unit for Indigenous Peoples (UASPI) was born, a health post staffed by and for neighborhood people.
Updated: 8 Mar 2021, 11:01
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The uncontacted Awá in the Brazilian Amazon use the resin of the maçaranduba tree to make fire to light houses and to hunt at night
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A nurse takes the temperature of a Covid-19 patient member of the Witoto indigenous tribe at a hospital set up near Manaus, BrazilCredit: Getty Images - Getty
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Health volunteers at the Support Unit, Parque das Tribos, Manaus, Brazil, Jan. 22, 2021. | Photo: Twitter/ @GreenpeaceBR
13 February 2021 (teleSUR) In response to the inefficiency of the Brazilian authorities, the residents of the Manaus neighborhood “Tribes Park” (Parque das Tribos) set up their “Support Unit” (SU), a rudimentary field hospital to treat COVID-19 patients.
Despite the high number of COVID-19 cases, they are not being treated directly by the Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health (SESAI) because they reside in an urban area.
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“We have been fighting for the lives of Indigenous people living in cities since last year,” said the SU manager Vanda Ortega, a nurse who is part of a group of volunteer health workers.
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