Slave Doctors Help Beat Obesity in Starving North Korea, Medical System Praised by WHO for This!
Courtesy of pasquin in http://pasquin.livejournal.com/201547.html, the following article from the Washington Post, "North Korea has plenty of doctors: WHO," by Jonathan Lynn (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/30/AR2010043001419_pf.html)
North Korea's health system would be the envy of many developing countries because of the abundance of medical staff that it has available, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Right. Not much in the way of drugs or medical equipment, but lots and lots of "medical staff." Who have graduated from North Korean educational institutions, with all that implies in terms of honesty and competence (or the lack thereof).
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, speaking a day after returning from a 2-1/2 day visit to the reclusive country, said malnutrition was a problem in North Korea but she had not seen any obvious signs of it in the capital Pyongyang.
Aside from the fact that many dictatorships make showplaces of their capitals, does she really imagine that the North Korean regime would let starving people anywhere near her?
North Korea -- which does not allow its citizens to leave the country -- has no shortage of doctors and nurses, in contrast to other developing countries where skilled healthcare workers often emigrate, she said.
This allows North Korea to provide comprehensive healthcare, with one "household doctor" looking after every 130 families, said the head of the United Nations health agency, praising North Korea's immunization coverage and mother and child care.
So, let's get this straight. The head of the United Nations health agency is "praising" a country for an availability of medical personnel which results from enslavement?!!!
Oh, how silly of America. Letting doctors move about freely from country to country. If we simply shot them whenever they tried to leave an area, we'd have no shortages of such personnnel. Especially if we reclassified nurses as "household doctors" and pretended that this terminological change made a real-world difference!
Chan's comments marked a significant change from the assessment of her predecessor, Gro Harlem Brundtland, who said in 2001 that North Korea's health system was near collapse.
And what's happened since 2001? A different head of WHO, who chooses to say nice things about North Korea.
Does sick people in North Korea absolutely no good, but it makes Kim Jong Il feel fine!
Chan spent most of her brief visit in Pyongyang, and she said that from what she had seen there most people had the same height and weight as Asians in other countries, while there were no signs of the obesity emerging in some parts of Asia.
But she said conditions could be different in the countryside.
News reports said earlier this year that North Koreans were starving to death ...
Hmm, I think I see the reason for the lack of obesity. People who are starving to death rarely have problems with unsightly weight gain. Can't imagine why.
Again: the UN is freaking useless. No competent organization would have allowed one of its executives to say anything so laughably idiotic.
Time for the UN to fold.
North Korea's health system would be the envy of many developing countries because of the abundance of medical staff that it has available, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Right. Not much in the way of drugs or medical equipment, but lots and lots of "medical staff." Who have graduated from North Korean educational institutions, with all that implies in terms of honesty and competence (or the lack thereof).
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, speaking a day after returning from a 2-1/2 day visit to the reclusive country, said malnutrition was a problem in North Korea but she had not seen any obvious signs of it in the capital Pyongyang.
Aside from the fact that many dictatorships make showplaces of their capitals, does she really imagine that the North Korean regime would let starving people anywhere near her?
North Korea -- which does not allow its citizens to leave the country -- has no shortage of doctors and nurses, in contrast to other developing countries where skilled healthcare workers often emigrate, she said.
This allows North Korea to provide comprehensive healthcare, with one "household doctor" looking after every 130 families, said the head of the United Nations health agency, praising North Korea's immunization coverage and mother and child care.
So, let's get this straight. The head of the United Nations health agency is "praising" a country for an availability of medical personnel which results from enslavement?!!!
Oh, how silly of America. Letting doctors move about freely from country to country. If we simply shot them whenever they tried to leave an area, we'd have no shortages of such personnnel. Especially if we reclassified nurses as "household doctors" and pretended that this terminological change made a real-world difference!
Chan's comments marked a significant change from the assessment of her predecessor, Gro Harlem Brundtland, who said in 2001 that North Korea's health system was near collapse.
And what's happened since 2001? A different head of WHO, who chooses to say nice things about North Korea.
Does sick people in North Korea absolutely no good, but it makes Kim Jong Il feel fine!
Chan spent most of her brief visit in Pyongyang, and she said that from what she had seen there most people had the same height and weight as Asians in other countries, while there were no signs of the obesity emerging in some parts of Asia.
But she said conditions could be different in the countryside.
News reports said earlier this year that North Koreans were starving to death ...
Hmm, I think I see the reason for the lack of obesity. People who are starving to death rarely have problems with unsightly weight gain. Can't imagine why.
Again: the UN is freaking useless. No competent organization would have allowed one of its executives to say anything so laughably idiotic.
Time for the UN to fold.