Dozens of Yanomami children hospitalised in northern Brazil amid health crisis
Boa Vista, Brazil Reuters Dozens of Indigenous children suffering from malnutrition and acute diseases have been hospitalised in northern Brazil, with relatives in hammocks holding their emaciated frames in scenes that underscore the gravity of a public health crisis. A nurse talks to a mother belonging to the Yanomami Indigenous group, whose son is treated […]
Brazil official says Yanomami region looks like “concentration camp”
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Brazil’s military should evict illegal gold miners who have caused malnutrition and starvation in a region of the Yanomami reservation near the Venezuelan border, Indigenous Health Secretary Weibe Tapeba said on Tuesday. “It looks like a concentration camp,” Tapeba, a doctor appointed to the position by Brazil’s new government, said in a […]