Posted: Dec 20, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 20, 2020
Henry Bugembe is a volunteer health worker in Nakawuka, Uganda. He tries to get the message out that it s important to practice physical distancing and wear masks to stop the spread of COVID-19.(Lily Martin/CBC)
Henry Bugembe riding his bright red motorcycle became a familiar sight in the town of Nakawuka during Uganda s lockdown last spring.
With public and private transportation banned at the time, and ambulances few and far between, it was one of the few vehicles on the road.
A volunteer health worker, Bugembe used a permission connected to his work with an NGO to get through the security checkpoints enforcing the lockdown in order to ferry people in need to hospital on the back of his bike.
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