The cacique Raoni, 90 years, a spokesperson for the native of Brazil, has been hospitalized since two days, has been transferred to Saturday by plane to a hospital better equipped because of” a worsening of her condition, ” announced the first educational institution where he had been admitted. Shortly after, the hospital where the cacique was transferred indicated that he showed ” signs of improvement “, including an elevation of the voltage, after first aid.

” He has today presented a worsening of his state of health, with an increase in anemia and deterioration of renal function […] probably due to a digestive haemorrhage “, said in a bulletin, the hospital of Santa Inês to the small town of Colider (Centre West), where she was admitted Thursday, the native chief defender of the amazon rainforest.

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This hospital in the State of Mato Grosso “that do not have intensive care unit, he was transferred with a certain urgency in another establishment of the same State” where, in his clinical condition would worsen “. Raoni Metuktire, known the world over for his fight tireless for the rights and lands of indigenous, had been transported by plane Thursday from her village to Colider, suffering from “weakness, breathing difficulties, loss of appetite, and diarrhea,” said the hospital Santa Inês.