In Venezuela’s Delta Amacuro state, most Indigenous communities live scattered along the banks of the Orinoco River, which is the main highway in the heavily-forested region spanning 25,000 square miles. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams must travel by motorboat for at least six hours from the state capital, Tucupita, to reach health clinics there, while patients often have to paddle by canoe for hours or even days to see a doctor.
One of our patients is 18-year-old Adelia, whose 38-week pregnancy was considered high risk due to her age and because she had no prenatal check-ups prior to being admitted at MSF’s health center. Read more about how MSF helped her give birth safely. | 
