Colombia responds to COVID-19 with an intercultural health model
Colombia responds to COVID-19 with an intercultural health model 6 November 2020
Under current COVID-19 guidance, all communities across Colombia are obliged to cremate people when they die, but an exception is made for the indigenous people of Alta Guajira. The Wayúu people s beliefs and cultural practices around death are so important, that the Government now allows them to bury their dead underground or in a vault.
The decision was made before COVID-19 reached the rural communities of Alta Guajira, who live in a vast desert of 8200 square kilometres in 22 000 scattered hamlets.
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