Brazilian neurosurgeon’s quest to help indigenous tribes and save the Amazon rainforest

Name: Jungle M.D. Brazilian neurosurgeon’s quest to help indigenous tribes and save the Amazon rainforest
Released: 2017-12-01
Duration: 25 min 4 s

01 December 2017

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Thousands of indigenous Brazilians live in remote villages scattered along the Amazon River with no access to modern medical care. Government support is scarce. But now, one of the country’s top neurosurgeons, Erik Jennings, has taken it upon himself to fill this gap. His family has lived on the Amazon for generations, and he pays ‘house calls’ to these isolated tribes out of a sense of affinity with the native peoples that live in the rainforests along the river.

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