Indigenous families in Brazil’s Amazon face Covid-19 pandemic with lack of access to medical care

Indigenous families in Brazil’s Amazon face Covid-19 pandemic with lack of access to medical care

Indigenous families in Brazil’s Amazon face Covid-19 pandemic with lack of access to medical care

Indigenous communities are extra vulnerable to the Covid-19 outbreak because of the lack of access to health care services. In the Brazilian Amazon, an indigenous nurse, Vanderlecia Ortega dos Santos decided to volunteer as a frontline medical worker to provide care for her community of over 700 families living with the risk of catching the deadly coronavirus.

User: South China Morning Post

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Uploaded: 2020-05-08

Duration: 02:26