Employees of the state indigenous health authority Sesai in Brazil are said to have sold at least 106 vaccine doses to gold dealers.
This is reported by portal G1 (Wednesday evening local time).
The vaccination doses actually intended for the Yanomami people are said to have been given away for 15 grams of gold, claim representatives of the Yanomami.
The Ministry of Health did not comment on the allegations.
Indigenous peoples filed an official complaint in mid-July, which has now reached the press. Five agency employees are accused of selling the vaccinations. In the village of Komamassipi 45 cans were inoculated to gold diggers, in Parima 23 and in Homoxi 38 cans. The incidents are said to have occurred in March, April and May. Journalists reported seeing the five Sesai workers at gold buying sites in a city.
It is already the second incident of this kind. As early as April, representatives of the Yanomami reported about the sale of vaccination doses to gold diggers. At that time, in addition to vaccinations, a nurse also sold gasoline and an energy generator to prospectors for gold. Rumors of illegal sales had been around since January. It was then that vaccination doses began to be distributed in indigenous areas.