Brazil: Authorities Deny Doctors Without Borders Access to Indigenous Communities Threatened by the Spread of COVID-19
August 25, 2020
August 25, 2020
NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- The Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres issued the following news:
Federal authorities in Brazil last week rejected a proposal from Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to provide COVID-19 care to indigenous communities in the southwestern state of Mato Grosso do Sul. This rejection of medical humanitarian assistance comes as communities in the region face a rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths; they need urgent care to limit the deva . . .
Federal authorities in Brazil last week rejected a proposal from Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to provide COVID-19 care to indigenous communities in the southwestern state of Mato Grosso do Sul. This rejection of medical humanitarian assistance comes as communities in the region face a rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths; they need urgent care to limit the deva . . .