“Brigades haven’t come here in many years. These communities are really forgotten,” said Gilberto Inuma, president of Fepiurcha, an organization advocating for Urarina rights.
The trip upriver underscores the challenges of vaccinating remote indigenous communities in Peru and beyond, as well as gaps in wider healthcare access for remote groups. In the village with no doctors, ailments include headaches, diarrhea, malaria, and conjunctivitis, Quisto said. “We don’t know how to take care of our patients. That’s our worry.”
Less than 20% of them have been fully vaccinated, compared to around half for the country as a whole, he said.“When you look at that number, you have to remember that to administer both doses, teams have to travel 4-5 hours. That’s in the best-case scenario,” Mendigure explained. Reaching Mangual required 26 hours of travel over three days along rivers that at times dry up or are blocked with fallen trees.
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