“We will intervene in communities with action that endorses our national health policy (…) which has a fundamental pillar that we call intersectorality,” said the minister for that sector, Jeyson Auza, at a news conference.
The head indicated that the brigades that will be mobilized for communities and populations that are difficult to access will include 1,274 professionals from the sector and in particular 353 doctors who will give preference to 7,468 pregnant women and infants under two years old.
20 state institutions will support this project, which will provide medical care in these remote places, vaccinations against Covid19 and the regulatory system, bonus payments and the delivery of ID cards, among other things.
Auza announced the brigades will go into action on the 29th of this month, initially traveling by river to indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon.
He explained that they will visit cities near the Mamoré and Isiboro Securé rivers, as well as the cities of Tres Bocas, Santa Isabel, Internado, Yarecuate and La Soletera.
He commented that the objective is to promote in an articulated manner the provision of comprehensive services in favor of the motherchild sector beneficial to the general population of native peasant indigenous peoples through mobile brigades.
Regarding the Bono Juana Azurduy, which aims to help reduce maternal mortality in infants and chronic malnutrition in children under two years old, she indicated that 7,468 women and infants will benefit.
The Executive Secretary of the National Confederation of Native Indigenous Peasant Women of Bolivia Bartolina Sisa, Flora Aguilar, described the arrival of these brigades in remote areas as important, explaining that in many cases, due to the lack of an identity card, the female population was affected by the Bono Juana Azurduy cannot take advantage of the benefits granted.
Among other things, these mobile departments will provide various healthcare services, pay the Bono Juana Azurduy through a Banco Unión mobile counter and promote the prevention of Covid19 with nasal antigens and vaccines.
In addition, with the support of the Public Enterprise Development Service, they will be delivering food parcels from the Universal Prenatal Subsidy for Life.
Meanwhile, the administrative authority of the civil register (Sereci) issues the beneficiaries of the Bono Juana Azurduy the certificate of identity free of charge.
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