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China-Japan-Koreas
UN official praises N. Korea health system
2010-05-02
UN HEALTH agency chief Margaret Chan said on Friday after a visit to North Korea that the country's health system would be the envy for most developing countries although it faced 'challenges'.

'Based on what I have seen, I can tell you they have something that most other developing countries would envy,' she told journalists, despite reports of renewed famine in parts of the country.
Juche and tree bark?
'To give you a couple of examples, DPRK has no lack of doctors and nurses, as we see in other developing countries, most of their doctors and nurse have migrated,' the director general of the World Health Organisation said.

She also highlighted its 'very elaborate health infrastructure' extending to a district network of household doctors, she added.

Dr Chan visited the closed communist nation Monday through Wednesday at the regime's invitation. She met senior ministers and visited health facilities in the capital Pyongyang, as well as a rural hospital about an hour's drive away. Her visit to Pyongyang came amid reports of a severe food crisis in North Korea.
She could go anywhere she chose and nothing was staged managed, of course ...
Posted by:lotp

#8  Nice summary, Dash Riprocket.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-05-02 23:21  

#7  Look at it from her viewpoint. As a health professional, she sees no one in the hospital, so she thinks the population is healthy. All of the equipment is old, so they must not need any new, high-tech replacements. No one is fat, except Kim Il Daddy-o, so there are no obesity-related diseases. Everyone walks, so they are well-exercised. There are no sprawling cemeteries, so it means they all live long time (sorry, I couldn't resist). No one gets hurt in car crashes and there is no drunk driving.

So, as a clueless bureaucrat with an undergraduate in Home Economics and an equally bureaucratic degree in "public health" she is just reacting to sensory input, not logic.

And yes, I'm sure she go to go anywhere she wanted to go. Riiiiiiiight.
Posted by: Dash Riprocket   2010-05-02 15:16  

#6  It's far from the first stupid thing she's ever said. Check out her wikipedia bio entry for more of her choice gems. I especially like the first half of the last line: Chan's moral integrity has been publicly challenged
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2010-05-02 10:56  

#5  Huh. Wonder if it's just one hell of a bribe, or whether some NKor agent really earned his counterfeit Franklins last month & found a particularly nasty skeleton in Dr. Chan's closet.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2010-05-02 09:58  

#4  Ugly thing, likely it will draw unhealthy interest from the Atares Beta 3 arrowhead collection club.
Posted by: Shipman   2010-05-02 09:53  

#3  

Dr. Chan found the new Potemkin Memorial Hospital to be most impressive.
Posted by: DMFD   2010-05-02 03:46  

#2  Margaret Chan will be interviewed on Oprah next week.
Posted by: Ralphs son Johnnie   2010-05-02 03:07  

#1  And absolutely none of the obesity problems that are all too common in the developed world.
Posted by: gorb   2010-05-02 00:59  

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