Uganda, Dec. 1 -- Diabetic patients in Mbarara City have tasked the government to avail more drugs and testing services in public health facilities.

The chairperson of Mbarara Diabetic Patients Association, Mr Darius Ahimbisibwe, said they face many challenges in accessing drugs.

"We request the government of Uganda to intervene and help our clients by giving them free testing; there is where a diabetes patient require to take both hypertension and diabetes drugs but when they reach at the hospital, they are given only drugs for diabetes," he said in an interview on Tuesday.

Ms Zubeda Nakabuga, 59, a resident of Kiswahili Cell in South Division, Mbarara City, said she has lived with diabetes for 22 years but spends Shs700,000 monthly o...