Le vécu périnatal des femmes migrantes : Etude qualitative selon le cadre conceptuel de la CDSS

### **Oil Extraction Kills**

#### **Aude Martenot, Luisa Sanchez, and Olivia Albertoni**

Centrale Sanitaire Suisse Romande, Genève, Switzerland

Oil activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are causing disastrous environmental impacts and damaging the

health of indigenous populations. The latter are fighting for their rights, demanding ecological redress and compensation for their own health. In 2016, the Centrale Sanitaire Suisse Romande was asked by a local association, Clínica Ambiental, to support a care project for people suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses. Through a poster presenting the context and this project, we wish to demonstrate the interweaving of the ecological struggle and the fight for access to healthcare for all. We will be emphasizing the centrality of the gender issue because women are the first to be affected by ecocides, but also because they still shoulder the majority of domestic and care tasks. The project finances the creation of health centers in affected areas, the training of therapists to monitor patients, and the recording of cancer cases. At the same time, the project supports community-based reparation committees to strengthen social ties and ensure local accountability and decision-making. Indirect activities include training people in permaculture and lobbying the authorities. The arrival of the pandemic hindered the project, with the loss of certain state subsidies, the reallocation of medical resources leaving other diseases to be dealt with, and patients' fear of leaving their homes to seek treatment. Nevertheless, the recognition of therapists' status is having a positive impact on the community.

The project also promotes gender equality, as many of the therapists and most of the victims are women. Last but not least, the existence of the ecological disaster is becoming increasingly visible through the communities' advocacy actions, including in the context of the access to care project. The project is helping to address the problem of environmental injustice by acting on the health and social fronts. It is guided by a multi-sectoral struggle initiated by local players who have been committed for years.

Aude Martenot, Luisa Sanchez, and Olivia Albertoni

Centrale Sanitaire Suisse Romande, Genève, Switzerland

Les activités pétrolières en Amazonie équatorienne causent des impacts environnementaux désastreux et portent atteinte à la santé des populations autochtones et paysannes des zones affectées.

+ de 60'000 millions de litres d'eau polluée déversée dans la nature

<sup>+</sup> de 30'000 personnes affectées par la pollution pétrolière

+ 130% de cas de cancer en plus dans la région impactée qu'au niveau national

### Activities

Depuis 2016, la CSSR soutient un projet qui se focalise sur 3

Contexte

Dès les premiers impacts environnementaux, les populations locales se mobilisent et
