“He was our leader, but he was also my friend”: what happened to an indigenous community when their chief died of covid-19 From 1843mag
ne day in late March, Vanda Ortega, a young nurse’s aide, received a panicked phone call. It came from one of her neighbours in Parque das Tribos , an informal settlement on the outskirts of Manaus, a sprawling city of 2m people deep in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. The caller was worried because his mother’s persistent wheezing had worsened into desperate gasping. Ortega called an ambulance on the woman’s behalf, but was met with scepticism by the operator.
Ortega, who is 33 years old with jet-black hair down to her waist and a ruler-straight fringe across her forehead, had encountered ignorance of the kind displayed by the ambulance dispatcher before. At the surgical hospital further into Manaus where she normally works, many of Ortega’s patients and colleagues don’t even know that the indigenous settlement exists. In the early weeks of the pandemic, the municipal authorities didn’t send a single public-health official to Parque das Tribos.
When I visited Edwiges Tenório, the woman whom Ortega had rushed to the hospital, her garden was overgrown after months without care. She had recovered and was in high spirits, though she balked when Ortega suggested she start taking walks to strengthen her muscles. Her arms and legs were still sore, she said. But without Ortega, she knew that she wouldn’t be alive.Narzaria Melo, with her daughter and granddaugher .
Six months later, they sat around a picnic table outside their house. Karina cut old magazines into strips to use as streamers for aparty with members of her Catholic church. The midsummer festival celebrating Brazil’s rural past usually takes place in June, but was postponed because of lockdown. The family customised it to their Amazonian surroundings by making small dolls from seeds and fibres.
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