Health officials in Uganda told Global Press Journal to ignore information provided by health workers at the border.
Discrimination and misdiagnoses are common for overweight patients in the country, which has the world’s second-highest obesity rate. The results can be life-threatening.
People use anything they can to get the medical care they need, but some die trying.
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Photo by Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe
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