Recognizing the inefficiencies of government in tackling the yellow fever epidemic in brazil, the incredibly free market took matters into it's own hands
gang members kidnapped medical staff to make them vaccinate communities of poor people ... why can't we have gangs like these
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https://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2018/February-14th/brazilian-drug-dealer-kidnaps-medical-staff-makes-them-vaccinate-community-against-yellow-fever.phpQuote
For months, Brazil has been dealing with a yellow fever epidemic that has already left dozens dead. Despite the Health Ministry’s plans to vaccinate millions of people in the hopes of containing the outbreak, immunisation centres struggle to keep up with the high number of patients, and, as always, the poorest communities are usually ignored.
That was apparently the case of Salgueiro, one of the poorest regions of Rio de Janeiro, and the headquarters of 2N’s drug dealing operations.
So he decided to speed up the process by using a very familiar technique, kidnapping.
On January 27th, the young gang leader and a few of his cronies descended on a local state-run clinic in two black cars, took as many syringes and vaccine doses as they could find, and kidnapped two of the male nurses on duty that night.
They then drove to the Amarelinho bar in Salgueiro where the two nurses spent hours administering yellow fever vaccines to members of the local community.
In their report, the two health workers stated that the kidnappers were not aggressive and had only carried out the criminal action because many Salgueiro residents were not able to visit immunization centres to get their yellow fever shot.
After doing their job, the two victims were reportedly taken back to their workplace.