According to Antonio Denarium, the unit should be implemented within the next 30 days and will respect the habits and customs of the ethnic group.
The governor of Roraima, Antonio Denarium (PP), announced on Friday (Feb.3.2023) the installation of a state shelter to welcome the Yanomami indigenous people, who are experiencing a health crisis in the state. The commitment is contained in a letter sent by Denarium to the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT). The measure is expected to take effect in the next 30 days and management of the unit will be shared with the DSEI-Y (Special Yanomami Indigenous Health District). Activities on site must be developed in partnership between State bodies and the Union.
“I was in a meeting with the ministers and I reaffirm the commitment with Roraima and with Brazil. We are making available the structure of the State’s public administration in support of the federal government to join forces and remedy the serious crisis faced by the Yanomami population. It will be a joint and coordinated work”said the governor after meeting with the chief minister of the Civil House, Rui Costa, and with the minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, in Brasília.
The shelter will be installed in a place owned by the state government, about 200 meters from Casai (Indigenous Health House) Yanomami, where a Field Hospital of the FAB (Brazilian Air Force) was also installed. According to the Denarium letter sent to Lula, the space will be adapted to accommodate indigenous people undergoing health treatment, “with an environment following the customs of the ethnic group”. The main building has around 500 square meters and an annex block, which will function as administration, infirmary and collection of exams.
“The state shelter will obey the habits and customs of the ethnic group, without any damage to the secular culture of the Yanomami and will operate during the period of validity of the Yanomami health emergency decree, with facilities that are located next to the Casai, thus improving the quality of the indigenous people welcomed by the institution”says an excerpt from the letter.
Public management of the space will be the responsibility of the Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health (Sesai), of the Ministry of Health, with support from Setrabes (State Health Secretariat and the Secretariat for Labor and Social Welfare).
*With information from Brazil Agency
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