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Community to attend is the Hospital Regional de Concepción [Hospital Regional de
Concepción] (Concepción Regional Hospital)141 located 46 kilometers away (from
Santa Elisa settlement).142 According to the Paraguayan legislation, medical, dental,
hospital, laboratory services and other medical procedures should be provided by the
State to the members of the Indigenous Communities of Paraguay free of charge.143
However, when they are ill they generally resort to the traditional medicine or to
“household remedies.” The greatest material obstacle the members of this
indigenous community have to face in order to have access to medical care is the
lack of financial means to travel to the hospitals and to buy medicines.144
73(73) Likewise, the members of this Community have obstacles to register their
births, deaths, and changes in their civil status, as well as to obtain any other
identification document.145 Particularly, the members of the Community NN Galarza,
Rosana López, Eduardo Cáceres, Eulalio Cáceres, Esteban González Aponte, NN
González Aponte, NN Yegros, Jenny Toledo, Guido Ruiz-Díaz, NN González, Luis
Torres Chávez, Diego Andrés Ayala, Francisca Britez, Silvia Adela Chávez, Derlis
Armando Torres, Juan Ramón González, Arnaldo Galarza and Fátima Galarza died
whose acts command full faith and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 44, and book titled “Atlas de
las Comunidades Indígenas in el Paraguay" [Atlas of the Indigenous Communities in Paraguay],” Dirección
General de Estadística, Encuestas y Censos [Bureau of Statistics, Surveys and Censuses] of the Secretaría
Técnica de Planificación de la Presidencia de la República [Office of the Technical Secretary of State for
Planning to the President of the Republic]." Paraguay, 2002. Volume II, pages 400 and 401.
141
Cf. statement rendered by Ms. Elsa Ayala before a public official whose acts command full faith
and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 119; statement rendered by Ms. Mariana Ayala before a public
official whose acts command full faith and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 120; statement
rendered by Ms. Gladys Benítez-Galarza before a public official whose acts command full faith and credit
on January 17, 2006, supra note 28; statement rendered by Mr. Pablo Balmaceda before a public official
whose acts command full faith and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 44, and statement rendered by
Mr. Bernardo Jacquet in 2005 according to a certified copy of the original document as attested by Notery
Public José Cayo Estigarribia (case file on the merits, reparations, and costs, Volume III, folio 557).
142
Cf. statement rendered by Ms. Gladys Benítez-Galarza before a public official whose acts
command full faith and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 28.
143
Cf. form letter S.G No. 1/95 on “integral, deferential and gratituous medical care provided to
indigenous communities” issued by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare on February 24, 1995
(case file on the merits, reparations, and costs, Volume III, folio 867), and resolution No. 280/92 issued
by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare on April 15, 1992 (case file on the merits, reparations,
and costs, Volume III, folios 864 to 865); statement rendered by Mr. César Escobar-Cattebecke before a
public official whose acts command full faith and credit on February 18, 200 (sic) (case file on the merits,
reparations, and costs, Volume III, folios 560 to 564).
144
Cf. statement rendered by Ms. Elsa Ayala before a public official whose acts command full faith
and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 119; statement rendered by Ms. Mariana Ayala before a public
official whose acts command full faith and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 120; statement
rendered by Ms. Gladys Benítez-Galarza before a public official whose acts command full faith and credit
on January 17, 2006, supra note 28; statement rendered by Mr. Pablo Balmaceda before a public official
whose acts command full faith and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 44.
145
Cf. statement rendered by Ms. Mariana Ayala before a public official whose acts command full
faith and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 120; statement rendered by Ms. Gladys Benítez-Galarza
before a public official whose acts command full faith and credit on January 17, 2006, supra note 28;
statement rendered by Mr. Carlos Marecos before a public official whose acts command full faith and credit
on January 17, 2006, supra note 27; statement rendered by Mr. Leonardo González-Fernández before a
public official whose acts command full faith and credit on January 17, 2006 (case file on the merits,
reparations, and costs, Volume III, folios 728 to 731), and response of the State to the request for
evidence to facilitate the adjudication of the case made by the President of the Court on January 20, 2006
(case file on the merits, reparations, and costs, Volume III, folios 610 and 611).