Juchitán de Zaragoza. – The organization Red Sun Stream at Isthmus of Tehuantepec This day he also launched an alert call for the collapse of the health spaces in the communities where they have a presence, in the middle of the third wave of the pandemic of Covid-19, which assured that it violates the right of indigenous communities to health.
The organization pointed out that in the town of Cerro Grande, belonging to San Francisco Ixhuatán, many families lost members in recent weeks due to lack of care from the same Expanded Health Center of the municipality, which does not have medicines or trained personnel, in addition to reporting that workers only answer to the union.
They also noted that in San Francisco del Mar, the clinic has no staff or medications, noting that several people died from the virus without receiving medical attention at the Santa Rita agency.
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In this area, many families seek help in the hospitals of Matías Romero and Juchitán, but in these hospitable spaces saturation forces them to return to their communities.
In relation to the municipality of Santo Domingo Petapa, Sol Rojo indicated that the medical unit, the personnel, or the medications were not delivered; Nor does the transportation ambulance, further complicating the scenario that the northern area of the Isthmus is experiencing.
While the Matías Romero Avendaño Expanded Health Center It does not have medicines or infrastructure to care for patients with Covid-19, as it does not have personnel to provide the service on the evening or night shift.
Regarding the Maria Lombardo community hospital, the organization pointed out that it is closed due to casualties in the hospital; While in the community of Francisco Villa de Santiago Yaveo, staff, medicine and ambulances were requested for the Covid-19 patients.
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The Sol Rojo organization blamed “laziness and apathy” for the current health crisis in the towns on the part of the state health secretary Juan Carlos Márquez Heine to address the issue in an emergent manner.
That is why they made an appeal for the State to guarantee the health and life of all Oaxacans, mainly women, children, indigenous communities and Afro-descendants, as to strengthen the emerging assessment process.
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