M\u00e9decins du Monde France works in the area organising health brigades. The community in the picture is Amparado, located more than six hours by canoe from the capital of the municipality, Bellavista. A few days before the photo was taken, six children from the village who were sick (diarrhoea, vomiting, dehydration) were taken to the health centre in Bellavista. Some of the younger ones had already died with the same symptoms. The health centre was short of everything: not only medicines, but also medical staff. The workers had been on strike for months because they had not been paid their salaries. The last doctor had left the centre three or four months earlier and had not yet been replaced. The next day, due to lack of care, two of the six children died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This photo was taken in March 2005, in an Embera community, one of Colombia’s many indigenous ethnic groups. Some of these communities live in the department of El Choc\u00f3, deep in the jungle, amid armed conflict between guerrillas, paramilitaries, and state forces. Rivers are their only means of communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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