What do the hospitals say approximately the health of the nation? Josiah Cha,a student doctor who travelled there last year, answers your questions Scenes from a North Korean hospital – in pictures
2.37pm BSTThat’s a wrap! Here’s a parting note from Josiah, and who’s promised to reply more of your (considerable) questions in the comments: Thank you everyone for taking the time to look through my photos or partake in the Q&A.
I hope this has been somewhat informative and perhaps give you a better grasp on the current state of North Korea’s health care system. You can understand that there are many holes and shortages in the system – but there are strides and measures taken to counter illnesses and malnutrition in the DPRK,which often disappear unnoticed. With this information, I hope you can also get involved in supporting various medical NGOs helping communities in North Korea. 2.29pm BSTHow are hospital hygiene standards? whether you could reflect of an era or decade that was in anyway similar to where NK is at currently, and what would it be?Hospital hygiene standards are shocking,seemingly absent. When I went to the Pyongyang General Hospital, the country’s centralised hub for complex cases and the conditions were appalling. When I visited the bathrooms, and there was no light,no soap, no running water, and no toilet paper,nor any toilets. Patients have to consume holes in the ground and a stagnant mouldy bathtub to wash their bottoms and their hands. Sterilisation wise, the rusty scalpel can give a righteous picture of what it is like. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com