Trying & Dying-- Dystopian Short Story 'The Hunger Games' contest entry

Jerelin and the rest of her troop are thrust into the south american rainforests to search for an herb that possesses the final ingredient to a medicine that will cure the diseased-- mostly everyone in the society of The Tape, which is the future USA.
But the catch is that the Government may be planning something more dastardly, and nobody knows about it. . .

Is this whole herb locking procedure nothing more than a way to execute all the healthy kids, so the remaining diseased will become their slaves controlled by tracking devices?

Jerelin and her friends struggle to survive the traps and mind games that are brought upon them in the forest by the Government, who has figured out that they had just learned about the evil plan. How will they get out
AND save everyone?