Muhammed Busia District As we conducted research around Masafu General Hospital, we chanced upon Muhammed, his mother, and his grandmother at the hospital. It was shortly after the officer at the dispensary had made an announcement that seemed to make a number of patients uneasy. Muhammed, irked, briefly tells us that the doctor had just told them that he wouldn’t be attending to anyone who didn’t have a National ID starting next week. After consulting with his parents, he agrees to participate in our interview and leads us away to his home. He narrates to us the experience of his family: While registration for the National ID was happening, my grandmother was bedridden and so we failed to register. By the time we came back, the process was done. So she has no National ID. And now we are just coming from the hospital. When we got to the hospital, their blood sample was taken and when we went to the dispensary to get the medicine, the doctor told us that starting Monday, he doesn’t want to see anyone without a National ID at the hospital. I asked him, do you mean that all Ugandans have a National ID? He then told me that he doesn’t care. What I want to know now is, when my grandmother falls sick again, will they not treat her? What do they want us to do? How a National Security Approach to Uganda’s National Digital ID Has Led to Wholesale Exclusion of Women and Older Persons 47