Cameroonians Protest Insecurity Preventing Diabetes Treatment, Causing Deaths: Cameroon
Scores of diabetics and hospital workers braved a heavy downpour in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé on Monday to march against what they call abuse of diabetes patients' rights.
The government says Boko Haram militants in northern Cameroon and separatists in the country's west often attack hospitals and abduct health care workers. Cameroon says many health workers have fled the fighting, which also makes delivery of hospital equipment and medication difficult.
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