Government exonerates 43 Funai employees and 11 indigenous health coordinators

The federal government exonerated 43 civil servants who held command positions at the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai). The 38 dismissals and five dismissals affect national and regional coordinators of the body, advisors, in addition to the corregidor Aurisan Souza de Santana and the director of the Museu do Índio, Giovani Souza Filho. 23), is signed by the Chief Minister of the Civil House, Rui Costa.

In the same publication, the federal government exonerated those responsible for commanding the teams of 11 of the 34 special indigenous health districts (Dsei), subordinated to the Ministry of Health. The folder informed that the replacements are part of the “natural process of the transition of government” and that the dismissals do not compromise the work of assistance to the indigenous population. The district coordinators of indigenous health of the following DSEIs were exonerated: Alto Rio Juruá (AC); Bahia; Ceará; Cuiabá; South Interior (SC); East of Roraima; Maranhão; Mato Grosso do Sul; Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo; Parintins (AM) and Porto Velho.

The dismissals take place in the midst of an indigenous health crisis in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, in Roraima, which motivated the Ministry of Health to declare a Public Health Emergency of National Importance in the indigenous territory. The situation would have been motivated by the illegal activity of miners that would be contaminating the rivers that supply the local communities, destroying the forest and affecting the survival conditions of the indigenous populations in the region.

Last Saturday (21) President Lula (PT) visited the Yanomami Indigenous Health House where several indigenous people are being taken to receive medical care, and announced a series of measures. According to the federal government, more than 30,400 indigenous people live in the area that the Union allocates for the exclusive use of the Yanomami.