Ministers Múcio and Almeida go to Roraima to monitor actions for the Yanomami
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The ministers of Defence, José Múcio Monteiro, and of Human Rights and Citizenship, Silvio Almeida, travel to Boa Vista this Wednesday afternoon (8) to accompany the government’s assistance actions to the indigenous peoples of the Yanomami territory, which faces a serious humanitarian crisis.
Among the commitments, according to the ministries, are visits to the Acolhida Operation base, which receives Venezuelan immigrants, the Interiorization Coordination Center, the Rondon 5 and Waraotuma shelters in Tuaranoko, the Yanomami Indigenous Health House (CASAI), among others. .
On Thursday (9), the ministers will visit the Surucucu base pole, a reference region within the territory, an hour and a half flight from the capital. The Yanomami territory has been under a Health Emergency decree since mid-January, when the first reports emerged of a lack of health care for indigenous people, which had resulted in the deaths of 570 children from malnutrition in recent years.
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