Stephanie Boyd reports from the Peruvian Amazon on the fight to get adequate healthcare that respects indigenous tradition.
As the Covid-19 pandemic ripples through Peru’s Amazonian communities, Stephanie Boyd reports on sinister official neglect and the people’s desire for healthcare combining the best of traditional and Western medicine.
There’s a note of panic in Mari Luz’s voice when she calls. ‘Señorita, it’s arrived,’ she says. She doesn’t have to say more: Covid-19 has reached her small village on the Marañón River, in Peru’s northern Amazon region.
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