Health in the Amazon

It is 10 PM on a refreshing night, following a scorching September day in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon forest. The chant of howler monkeys is baffled by the sound of music, which the villagers of São Francisco are dancing to. São Francisco is part of the Rio Iriri Extractive Reserve, a federally protected land in the Xingu River basin, and the villagers are celebrating the end of an expedition that brought them COVID-19 vaccines, blood exams, and medical checkups.

The villager asks the doctor to help his community secure enough boat fuel and funds to build landing strips and rent airplanes for emergency evacuations. He remembers the days when he had no choice but to work for an infamous cattle farmer in the region. Known for his brutality, the farmer illegally grabbed and deforested an area of about 1.3 million hectares of forest inside the reserve — an area about the size of Puerto Rico.

Francisco Assis, a 60-year-old Brazilian-nut harvester and community leader in the village of São Francisco, is a living example of this connection between healthcare and deforestation. Just before the pandemic, in 2019, Assis embarked on a 10-hour boat trip to the city looking for treatment for unbearable pain that had been growing in his abdomen for years without medical care. The doctors recommended surgery.

Raimundo Francisco Belmiro, resident of the Riozinho do Anfrísio Extractive Reserve, also in Terra do Meio, is a 56-year-old rubber tapper. He has lost track of how often he has seen people involved in destructive activities to cover health expenses. “It is not because they are bad, it is just that they need it,” he says. Born and reared in the environs of the Riozinho do Anfrísio river, Belmiro also worked in illegal mines when he was young.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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