A day after Amnesty International issued a report on the state of North Korea’s healthcare system, a spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO) defended the North’s system and called the Amnesty report unscientific. This after the Director General of the WHO, Margaret Chan, called [PDF] the North Korean healthcare system, “something which most other developing countries would envy,” after a visit in April.
Initial response? The people at the WHO need to spend a little more time handing out meds and a little less time taking them. Anyone calling the North Korean healthcare system the envy of anything has to be delusional.