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WHO criticizes Amnesty report into NKorea health
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GENEVA -- The World Health Organization found itself Friday in the strange position
Not so strange, they've folded themselves like this before ...
of defending North Korea's health care system from an Amnesty International report, three months after WHO's director described medicine in the totalitarian state as the envy of the developing world.

Amnesty's report on Thursday described North Korea's health care system in shambles, with doctors sometimes performing amputations without anesthesia and working by candlelight in hospitals lacking essential medicine, heat and power. It also raised questions about whether coverage is universal as it -- and WHO -- claimed, noting most interviewees said they or a family member had given doctors cigarettes, alcohol or money to receive medical care. And those without any of these reported that they could get no health assistance at all.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-07-17
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