Health / Te Ao Maori

Why does diabetes disproportionately affect Māori?

08:43 am on 6 December 2022

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A Māori woman who needed a refill of her essential diabetes medication says she was called fat and told to 'get a job' by her doctor instead of getting her prescription.

In part two of an in-depth series on Māori health outcomes, RNZ looks at the country's biggest and fastest-growing health condition, diabetes, which disproportionately impacts Māori.

Here's In-depth Māori journalist Ella Stewart with the story.