Minister Alceni Guerra at first approved a regional health plan, but the plan has now been abandoned. Government cutbacks on the transport of medical personnel and medicines into many indigenous areas have also been based on the onset of the rainy season. The net result of these difficulties is that the health situation remains very serious in the Yanomami area. 11. Still another cause for the failure of the medical programme to counter adequately the Yanomami's health problems is the lack of support, loqistical and otherwise, for the medical teams that has been provided by FUNAI holdovers from the previous Sarney administration. In one documented report, when a FUNAI airplane recently broke down, the agency collaborated with qarimpeiro leader Jose Machado who, in return for providinq a substitute plane to ferry medical supplies, was allowed to fly in additional craft to resupply qarimpeiros workinq illeqally within Yanomami territory. 12. Althouqh the lack of aircraft and other support has been the most serious problem, medical care is also sharply limited by the extreme scarcity of Yanomami interpreters to assist the medical personnel. Only a handful of such interpreters exist, and this makes it impossible to provide the level of medical care needed to counter the diseases and medical problems resultinq from the invasion of the qarimpeiros. As a result, complete removal of the qarimpeiros is the only means of stoppinq the. physical destruction of the Yanomami people. Destruction of the environment 13. The invasion of the qarimpeiros has brouqht the destruction of larqe areas alonq the banks of rivers where the mining operations are takinq place. The headwaters of all the major rivers in the Yanomami area have been polluted with mercury, resultinq in the destruction of much of the Yanomami food supply. In tests carried out last year in one group of Yanomami, researchers 
**Analysis**
The text primarily discusses the negative impacts of the invasion of gold miners (qarimpeiros) on the Yanomami indigenous people and their environment. The text highlights the health problems, lack of support for medical teams, and environmental destruction caused by the mining activities. This suggests that the text is more focused on the humanitarian and environmental aspects of the issue rather than economic development or industry.

**Category**
Health, Humanitarian aid and relief, Natural resources and environment