Ten indigenous people die in a village in Mato Grosso, Brazil in first two weeks of 2011 (of several diseases?)

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Health Ministry investigates deaths in a village in Mato Grosso Xavante
Duty | Posted on 17/01/2011 at 19h14m
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BRASILIA - The deaths of ten children and adults in Xavante villages in the municipality of Mato Grosso Campinápolis led the Special Indigenous Health (SESA), the Ministry of Health to send a technical team to the city, located over 600 km of Cuiabá. The group will assess the health conditions and medical care provided to indigenous community in the region.


According to the municipal secretary of Health, John Ailton Barbosa, the ten children and adults died of ethnicity in the first two weeks of the year. He said the deaths occurred due to pneumonia, dehydration, malnutrition and other diseases.


Still according to Barbosa, eight children were admitted to the hospital in Bar Herons - referral center in the region. In 2010, 60 children - 34 of them with up to 1 year - died from respiratory diseases and infections, among others.


- Many come with advanced illness and die - Barbosa said.

The table, he added, is even more serious because of lack of personnel and vehicles to provide care to ethnicity.


After disclosure of the deaths, the ministry announced that an agreement was signed for £ 2.07 million with the Organization Our Tribe (ONT) to hire 104 professionals, who will join the current 400 employees. Other measures will be buying six cars and the repair of 15 vehicles stopped for lack of repair.


The ministry also sent 16 Campinápolis servers. They will organize the service in the House of the Indian Health in the city and also the towns of Bar and the Herons of Nova. In addition, establish a network of services with the municipal and state of health to prevent mortality in tribes. According to Sheshai, our staff will be in the region until the issue is resolved, with the relay team every 15 days.


- I hope to succeed. If it materializes, will be very good - said Barbosa.

 

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14:01:11 | 20h14
Pneumonia has killed eight children in 15 days Xavante
Cases were reported in Campin?polis, MT Northeast, there are cases of infectious diseases

Ednilson Aguiar / Secom-MT

Cases were reported in Campin?polis village in the northeast of MT
Katiana PEREIRA
THE ESSAY

To assess the health of the Xavante Indians Campin?polis (658 km northeast of Cuiab?), the Ministry of Health sent 11 technicians from the Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health (SESA) for the Special Indigenous Sanitary District (DSEI) Xavante. The professionals on a plane followed the FAB (Brazilian Air Force) on the morning of Friday (14).

In just 15 days, eight indigenous children died. The last child who died was two years old and died of pneumonia. This is the same problem that affected all the others died. In addition to pneumonia, parasitic and infectious diseases also have victimized children Xavante.

The provision of technical health is one of the emergency measures undertaken by the Health Ministry to ease the critical situation of the Xavante Indians of the region. In addition to the 11 individuals who traveled today, five more servers Sheshai strengthen the group from Monday (17).

According to information, this team will form a permanent task force, with relay teams every 15 days to implement the project aims to improve the service to the indigenous population. The team will leave only Campin?polis when the emergency is resolved Xavante.

 

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14/01/2011 - 20:29
Team arrives in Brasilia today to study child deaths Xavante
Bar Herons - Ronaldo Couto
The task force made up of doctors, nurses and Brasilia, decided to anticipate your trip to this Friday (14) with the aim of helping Funasa to discover the causes of death sequence inside the Xavante villages. There were 37 deaths in 2010 and only eight in early 2011. Nobody FUNASA Bar Herons and much less Campin?polis confirmed there was one more death from yesterday to today.

The distress call came from the prefecture decided to throw Campin?polis that the State Department to intervene with the Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health in Brasilia. Inexplicably children are dying for Disease several respiratory diseases and infectious diseases. There is also a suspicion that because of malnutrition in some children mortality.

About the possible death of this Friday by telephone from an Indian House funcio?ria Campin?polis denied the fact. She just confirmed that the team should arrive in Brasilia in the late afternoon accompanied by the director of FUNASA, Maria Tavares.

The story of little direct gaze was now the headquarters of the Bar Funasa who denied the death of this child. According to this funcinar? in 2011 there have been eight deaths of children. In 2010 was 37. This high rate of mortality in indigenous worried that the council decided to ask Campin?polis government support of TM to the Special Indigenous Health intervened in the city.

The indigenous population is Campin?polis 7000 Indians. The district has 105 villages scattered over the reservation Parabubure. The young leader Diogo Juruna, son of former congressman and chief Mario Juruna, said the Xavante community is outraged because there is information that federal resources are not lacking, and can understand the lack of medicines and even attendance. "Missing a more serious application of this resource" he said.

In Bar Herons Works Indian House (House) to meet the most severe cases of the region and the municipality receives almost 700 thousand dollars a month for indigenous health and that 350 000 is earmarked for NGO which replaced the ONT Gangazumba and 350 000 for City Hall. The leaders complained that even with all that cash dispensing care to them in the emergency department of Bar Herons is precarious.

 

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The Xavante are a small indigenous group in Western Brazil with a population estimate of about 9600 people. Brazil is home to more than 200 indigenous groups varying in population from a few dozen individuals to tens of thousands. Some groups have been widely acculturated into 21st century civilization while other groups remain almost isolated with little or no contact with outsiders. Infectious disease is always a problem in these small groups.

Additional information can be found at: FUNAI

An interactive map of the indigenous groups in Brazil can be found at:
http://mapas.socioambiental.org/website/TerraIndigenaNovo/viewer.htm

 

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Mato Grosso
In one week, six Indians die from lack of medical care in MT


January 18, 2011

Amazonia.org



Xavante Indians CUIAB?-Six died in the first week of 2011 in Campin?polis (TM), a town 710 km from Cuiaba, for lack of medical care. The complaint was made by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paul, on January 11.

Four children died of diarrhea, pneumonia, and one Indian adult died from complications of childbirth. In addition, one adult and two children were taken to hospital in Bar Herons, and eight children were admitted to city hospital with symptoms of pneumonia, malnutrition and dehydration, the newspaper reported the head of the Special Indigenous Sanitary District of the city, Xavante Marcos Antonio Tseredzao.

Campin?polis is one of the largest ethnic Poles in Mato Grosso Xavante, about 6,800 Indians distributed in 210 villages. 200 children born in 2010, 60 died from respiratory diseases, parasitic and infectious diseases.

The Xavante complain about the transition process with indigenous health. Last year, the government approved a measure that removed the National Health Foundation (FUNASA) care in villages and handed responsibility to the National Secretariat of Indigenous Health (SESA).

"In this transition process, are abandoned. Funasa does not attend and there is no service structure," complained the Xavante. The press office denied it was Sheshai interruption in service to the Indians.

Agreement

Two days after the termination of the newspaper, the Special Indigenous Health signed an agreement worth U.S. $ 2.07 million to contract with the NGO Our Tribe, 104 new health professionals to Campin?polis.

With the strengthening of civil servants, NGO Our Tribe will have 504 people to attend the Xavante. In a statement, the Health Department said it had arranged the purchase of six new cars and made a contract with a company for fleet maintenance. "With this, it will be possible to field the 15 vehicles currently held back for lack of repair," the statement said.

In an interview with Associated Press, Health Secretary John Campin?polis Ailton Barbosa said the situation is critical and that "many Indians still going to die" until the money arrives. In November, Barbosa had asked for help in an open letter sent to the State Department of Health and Congress. Got no return. (VB)