The Dixie Fire ravages California

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Firefighters monitor the spread of the Dixie Fire threatening the city of Westwood, California, United States, August 8, 2021. REUTERS - FRED GREAVES

By: Marion Cazanove

22 mins

UN experts unveiled alarming climate forecasts in their latest report, while natural disasters are on the increase, especially in California where the Dixie Fire has already destroyed more than 200,000 hectares.

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In a new report unveiled this morning (August 9, 2021), the IPCC concludes that climate change affects all regions of the world.

The situation is alarming, the temperature is expected to rise by around 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next twenty years.

Human activities are largely responsible for this warming, while California is still ravaged by the flames of the Dixie Fire.

The fire became the second largest in the history of this state in the American Southwest, thousands of people were ordered to evacuate.

  • In Bolivia, the debt of families to private clinics

The public health service lacks drugs, medical staff and beds in Bolivia, but this is not new. The coronavirus pandemic has worsened the situation in public hospitals. Coronavirus patients are flocking without being able to be taken care of. Families turn to private services to care for their loved ones. “ 

At that time, we had no choice, 

” Irma tells our correspondent

Alice Campaignolle

. “ 

We hospitalized my brother where there was room. When we found an available bed, we went for it

 ”. Health care fees are exploding, prices are often illegally high and lead many families to go into long-term debt. Wilma says " 

One Saturday, I am called from the clinic and I am told that my father has passed away.

I went to the clinic, but no one wanted to see us, all they wanted was the payment of 75,000. And so, they kept his body, from Saturday to Wednesday

 ”.

Although Bolivia has regulations in place to prevent these practices, they are resurfacing with the coronavirus epidemic.

Report in La Paz.

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