MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Two more babies die of malnutrition in north Argentina: seven in 40 days
Indigenous colonies in the northern territory of Argentina Another two babies died of malnutrition in the Argentine northern province of Salta, totalling seven so far this year. They all belong to indigenous colonies in this case from the Wichi community living under subsistence conditions in non fertile areas of the province.
One of the babies that this month would have been one year old died in a government hospital and was diagnosed “extreme dehydration as a consequence of gastroenteritis”.
The other case involves a two year old girl from the Los Baldes colony which apparently presented similar symptoms but no final diagnosis has been disclosed.
The two deaths which bring this year’s total to seven were confirmed by Dr. Enrique Heredia, Salta province government Social Medicine Director.
“We don’t want to brush the dead under the carpet: we now have seven indigenous babies dead in the last fifteen days because of malnutrition”, admitted Heredia.
At the funeral the aunt of the one year old baby Adriana said that “my nephew was healthy and rosy, but then he started loosing weight and was with diarrhoea so my sister took him to hospital. He was hydrated with serum and discharged on the same day”.
“Three hours later he was dead” said Marcos, the father of the child. On Saturday “we were going to celebrate his birthday with a treat of chocolate and party for which the family had been saving for months”.
Meantime in the Tartagal hospital in one of the poorest areas of Salta, six babies are being treated for diarrhoea and vomiting and another dozen remain under observation.
Heredia said that sanitary staff in ten different teams had already arrived to Tartagal and would begin checking the aborigine population.
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Read all commentsImbecile, from Canada, the first world (it sounds so great), having fun in the snow while children die of malnutrition in this country, will say that this is just a lie, or that we are not well informed. Where is Florencia Kirchner, Cristina's daughter? She loves New York, Qatar and Turkey, but she doesn't care about Salta. Who cares, right? After all those people in Salta are illiterates and they don't count. Yes, I'll vote for Cristina!
Feb 11th, 2011 - 05:01 pm 0“we were going to celebrate his birthday with a treat of chocolate and party for which the family had been saving for months.” You should tell Cristina about this, I'm sure she'll give you some money so you don't have to care about saving money for months.
Shakira en Salta, March 2011 (I hope the millionaire governor of Salta, Urtubey, will invite those kids to the concert of Shakira) The party goes on and on and on, children dying of malnutrition? What? Who cares!
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Urtubey having fun with football guys:
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Florencia having fun in Manhattan (rich man's world is so much fun! poor man's world is disgusting eww, don't you think Flor?)
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And the father of those kids in Salta was crying over a birthday party with a treat of chocolate, for which family have been saving for months, while Florencia spends in one night all the money that those people in Salta must save for months haha. Pizza and Champagne :)
I will write the governor of Salta and ask him to give the the indigenos state land for them to produse food or grow vicuna for San Juan's industrial complex, I really hope they are willing to work because we can help only if they are willing to work.
Feb 11th, 2011 - 07:48 pm 0Argentina's real enemy is moyano and his strikes for nothing, go to work without work production no country can keep away inflation, hunger or poverty.
http://en.mercopress.com/2011/02/02/soy-prices-soar-as-argentine-ports-are-blocked-by-week-long-strike
http://en.mercopress.com/2011/02/02/soy-prices-soar-as-argentine-ports-are-blocked-by-week-long-strike
http://en.mercopress.com/2011/02/02/soy-prices-soar-as-argentine-ports-are-blocked-by-week-long-strike
something like this is happening in Egypt today.
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/egypt/110209/egypt-strikes-protests
http://en.mercopress.com/2011/02/02/soy-prices-soar-as-argentine-ports-are-blocked-by-week-long-strike
http://en.mercopress.com/2011/02/02/soy-prices-soar-as-argentine-ports-are-blocked-by-week-long-strike
Corn is up 92% in a year, wheat is up 80% - with the usual knock-on effect on the cost of bread, meat and dairy products. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization has shown that global food prices have hit a record high, even higher than during the 2007/2008 food crisis. Food inflation now rules all over the world, not only Egypt (where, crucially, more than half of an average income goes for food; food price inflation in Egypt is at an enormous 17% a year).
www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MB11Ak01.html
They used to say that the pen was mightier than the sword,
Feb 11th, 2011 - 10:41 pm 0but in Egypt’s case the internet and youth is mightier than countries,
it may be showing a new way to get rid of governments that the people don’t want, it certainly opens the doors to all countries that ignore the people.
If it can happen in Egypt and Tunisia, then it can possibly happen anywhere.
So if the argentine people ever get fed up they can always go the Egyptian way
Just a thought .
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