Jacir de Souza’s story ENG - Indigenous health in Roraima (webclip)

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF335698

Date taken / Date Recorded 29/09/2020 12:00 AM

Country Brazil

Commissioning section MSF-BRAZIL

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available yes

Editor's rating ★★★★★★ (B)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 2m19s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 209.16 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist LETTERING:
Roraima, Brazil

Jacir de Souza
Macuxi leader and former director of the Roraima Indigenous Council

My name is Jacir de Souza, I am 72-years-old and I am a Macuxi.

LETTERING:
Between 1992 and 1998, MSF carried out one of its first projects in Brazil’s indigenous lands.

Jacir de Souza is part of this story.

There was a lot of malaria in the past.

When Doctors Without Borders arrived in our community, we talked, and we explained what was happening.

Then we started working together.

They understood us.

They wanted to stay in a nearby village, but I said: “No, if you want to work with indigenous people, it has to be inside the community”.

Then they said, “We're going to help.
We invited indigenous people from all over Roraima to be trained as lab technicians and microscopists.

There was malaria throughout the state, and then [with the work] it was gone.

It was really over!

LETTERING:
During the project, MSF trained dozens of microscopists and indigenous health workers.

Many of them are still working in their communities today.

More than twenty years after Jacir first met MSF, he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and received treatment at a field hospital in Boa Vista, where MSF worked.

Fever, headache, cough.

And the fever just didn't go away.

We came [to Boa Vista] for treatment.

I did not expect it would be such a tough disease.

LETTERING:
After some time in intensive care, Jacir was discharged, free of the disease.

I lost my younger brother, I lost my mother-in-law, I lost my aunt.

I don't know when this disease will go away.

And people are dying outside the urban areas, in the indigenous communities.

LETTERING:
Indigenous people in Brazil are being severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are committed to providing assistance for people with difficulty reaching healthcare across Brazil and beyond.