This article analyzes how the health issue is addressed in newspapers that emerged after the Fundão dam burst, in Mariana (MG). One, of the community journalistic genre, made by the rights themselves 

and three others of the institutional genre, created by the institution responsible for managing as post-disaster actions. Collection of information collection and analysis of critical discourse analysis, it is concluded that there is a difference in the way of enunciating the disaster and different approaches on the theme of health. There is an attempt by the community newspaper to break the discursive hegemony, in addition to promoting the vocalization of those affected, while institutional journals seek the dominant hegemonic

 power, through untying the population's health problems from the disaster.