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The testimony I am going to give is about my family.
I went with my daughter to fish for frogs and on the way there a viper bit her.
I wanted to take her to the clinic but I didn't have a canoe to take her in, nor did I have any medicine.
This is my testimony.
One night in 1995 my son began to suffer from diarrhoea.
I didn't have any medicines, it was raining and there is no clinic nearby.
He carried on suffering from diarrhoea and began vomiting until he died because we didn't have anything to treat him with.
A woman in my community, Kayamas, went into labour.
There was neither a canoe nor health care.
She gave birth but there was no one to look after her, there was no health care, medicine or means to move her.
We sent a message for someone to come and collect her, but were told there was no transport available.
She died.
And another thing - we are very shy people.
This is why we don't go to the health centre to ask for help when our wives are in childbirth.
The husband takes good care of his wife at home.
It is not customary to take a woman to a clinic to give birth.
We cope or we put up with it.
Besides, there are no means of transport available and this causes problems when people need to be moved.
On the 9th of May I was playing football and in the evening I twisted my ankle.
I rested but even though I was treated with medicine the pain didn't ease off.
On 21st June I fell ill.
My stomach and head were hurting and I couldn't breathe properly.
I went to a local healer who treats illnesses with eggs.
After he diagnosed me he said I had "yellow stomach" and prescribed me Chloramphenicol.
But I didn't get any better.
So I went to the health centre in Wawaim and they told me that I had high blood pressure. They too gave me medicine but that didn't help either.
After that I went to Huampami but I couldn't see a doctor, only a health worker.
I'm still not recovered and I don't know which illness I have.
They took a stool sample and told me I had a stomach bug called a Necator [a hookworm].
I have taken seven different medicines but I have not got better.
It's now August and I am still ill.
I would like to ask for a foreign professional to come and help treat us, the same way Dr. Guillermo did.
The Awajun people need training to be able to attend to people who are ill.
There are many illnesses here, but for a lack of transport we can't move anyone.
While I was trying to recover nobody visited me.
We don't have any transport to be able to visit people and we urgently need transport.
For these reasons, the Ministry of Health should watch this video and realize that out here live human beings that need treatment from professionals...
...who are here on a permanent basis otherwise we will have to defend ourselves from these illnesses.
I think that children' s lived can be saved.
We die quickly because we don't know how to prevent or treat illness.