Ministry of Communications says it will install 15 internet points in the Yanomami Indigenous Land

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The objective is to serve the local population and help teams sent to Roraima to help with the health crisis. The situation in the reserve was aggravated by the invasion of illegal mining and the lack of federal assistance. The Ministry of Communications announced this Thursday (26) that it will activate a broadband signal at the Yanomami Indigenous Reserve, in Roraima. There will be 15 access points to be used by the local population and by teams sent to Roraima to help with the humanitarian and health crisis experienced by the Yanomami. According to Minister Juscelino Filho, in material released by the government, the number is more than double the number of internet points already existing in the region. Access will be carried out by the state-owned company Telebras, responsible for implementing public policies in telecommunications. The connection will use the SGDC-1 satellite, launched by Brazil in 2017 – the same one that connects schools in remote regions to the internet. What is happening to the Yanomami people? READ ALSO: PF opens inquiry to investigate suspicions of genocide and failure to help the Yanomami ANA FLOR: ‘Bolsonaro government has allied itself with this illegal mining’ More than a thousand Yanomami indigenous people in serious condition have been rescued in recent days, says secretary Tragedy in the reserve More than 1,000 indigenous people in serious health conditions have been rescued from the Yanomami Indigenous Land in recent days by Ministry of Health teams working on an emergency basis in communities within the reserve. The estimate was released this Tuesday (23) by the secretary of Indigenous Health (Sesai) of the ministry, Weibe Tapeba, during a press conference in Boa Vista. The teams have been in reserve since January 16 to act in the face of lack of health care in the territory. The indigenous people suffer mainly from malaria and severe malnutrition, says Tapeba. “We believe that more than a thousand indigenous people were rescued in these last few days from the territory so as not to die,” he said. In one week, the only children’s hospital in the state received 29 sick Yanomami children. Indigenous people are rescued from the communities where they live and taken to the Surucucu post – a unit considered a reference in the region, but which boils down to a wooden shed with beaten floors and precarious structure. Federal Police open inquiry to investigate suspicions of omission of aid and genocide against the Yanomami people, in the Bolsonaro government

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