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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Saeed Kamali Dehghan

‘I watch people for signs’: the project finding and treating Uganda’s diabetic children

An insulin injection at a warrior education workshop in Jinja clinic, Uganda
An insulin injection at a warrior education workshop in Jinja clinic, Uganda. Photograph: Sonia Nabeta Foundation

On a night bus out of Kampala, the Ugandan capital, a 12-year-old child was constantly asking her uncle for water. She drank so much that finally she wet herself. Dankan Onzima, on his way home from a conference, was sitting behind the girl.

“I felt bad and touched with what was happening to her,” Onzima says. “I had to wait until my destination, but they were going beyond my stop, so I asked the driver to give me two minutes to talk to the caretaker of the child and the driver allowed.”

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