Hospital set up to serve the Yanomami people begins to function

The field hospital that the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) set up in Boa Vista (RR) began operating on the morning of this Friday (27th), when health professionals from the Air Force began providing care to indigenous people transferred from the Yanomami Reserve. Thirty military doctors, from different specialties, such as clinical medicine, orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, radiology, gynecology, pathology, in addition to pharmacists, nurses and nursing technicians, were deployed to assist patients whose health status required them to be taken to the capital of the state, about a two-hour flight from indigenous territory. According to the FAB, the field hospital has laboratories and outpatient clinics for emergency care, consultations, exams and ultrasounds and will contribute to expanding the service capacity of the Casa de Saúde Indígena (Casai) – on whose land the temporary structure is set up. . According to the Ministry of Health, 576 Yanomami were hospitalized at Casai this morning. Five days ago, the number of patients reached 777. For officials of the folder, the reduction in recent days is already the result of the first week of federal intervention in the health and humanitarian crisis faced by the Yanomami, which saw the number of cases of malaria and malnutrition of adults and children explode in recent years. Last week, the Ministry declared a Public Health Emergency of National Importance and created the Public Health Emergency Operations Center (COE-Y), responsible for coordinating actions to be implemented by the Government, including the distribution of resources for the reestablishment of services and articulation with state and municipal managers of the Unified Health System (SUS). Last Tuesday (24), professionals from the National Force of the SUS began to reinforce services at the Support House for Indigenous Health (Casai) in Boa Vista (RR). According to the Ministry of Health, on Wednesday alone, teams from the National Force of the SUS treated 148 patients, 77 men and 71 women, all adults. The main complaints are diarrhea, pneumonia, suspected tuberculosis – serious conditions, aggravated by the high degree of malnutrition that ministry technicians diagnosed when visiting the indigenous land and the indigenous health unit in Boa Vista, in recent weeks. According to the FAB, a second field hospital is already being set up in Surucucu, one of the base poles of the Yanomami Indigenous Land, and only patients in serious condition are being taken to Boa Vista.

Agência Brasil