translated from Spanish: Fire smoke in the Amazon is affecting communities in Bolivia

Dense smoke in addition to strong winds and high temperatures are affecting the health conditions of residents, military, firefighters and volunteers who have come to mitigate the fire that has devoured Bolivian forests neighboring the Amazon Brazilian, health authorities reported on Saturday. The population suffers from conjunctivitis and “water is hurting us,” a villager in the town of Aguas Calientes, about 500 kilometres south of La Paz, was hit by the burns, told The Associated Press. But it also affected the soldiers of the army, 40 of them had mumps by changing temperatures.” They are exposed to heat and have taken cold water: that change could be one of the causes of mumps,” Eliana Sambrana, a doctor responsible for brigadier care, told the press. In addition, volunteers, who are from different regions, suffered fainting and dysentery due to the intense heat, Added Sambrana.The Ministry of Health reported in a statement that in the last two weeks they attended to nearly 3,000 people in 11 communities. The fires devoured one million hectares of crop and forest land a month and a half ago, according to the NGO Fundación Amigos de la Nature and other environmentalists, as the government talks about half a million hectares destroyed. The most critical fire focused on the Chiquitanía area of the Santa Cruz region, the thriving agro-industrial region. It is a unique dry forest that stretches beneath ananine slopes on a vast plain connecting to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.The government of President Evo Morales hired a Supertanker aircraft to the private company Global. There are also four helicopters, six airplanes and more than 4,500 people among brigalists and volunteers.” This hard work is affecting volunteers, fire brigades, military and the general population,” Health Minister Gabriela Montaño said of the press. The most common diseases are conjunctivitis, respiratory infection and dermatitis, the Ministry of Health reported in a statement. Two Peruvian helicopters arrived from the outside, some 200 Argentine brigades and experts from Chile and Unidos.Se waiting for another Russian-made tanker this time to arrive, which was loaned to Bolivia by President Vladimir Putin.Despite the fight in the the e.m. floodlights that had already shrunk again spread due to strong winds.



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