Another Country Michael Moore Would Like
North Korea’s health care system is in shambles with doctors sometimes performing amputations without anesthesia and working by candlelight in hospitals lacking essential medicine, heat and power …[and] … many of its 24 million people reportedly face health problems related to chronic malnutrition, such as tuberculosis and anemia, Amnesty International said.
Full article on North Korea’s health care system.
This doesn’t really shock me. Here in America we worry about not getting the right chemo quick enough to stop the cancer. In North Korea they realize that there are some things that are worse than death.
For all practical purposes, North Korea doesn’t have a health care system if the one is has is so short on supplies, equipment and personnel that it lacks the ability to heal anyone who wouldn’t get well on their own.
Well, at least they don’t have an obesity epidemic in North Korea.
In a just world, Michael Moore would be sent to North Korea the next time he needs medical care. And given his obesity, that day is probably not too far off.
Margaret Chan, Director of the World Health Organization, which ranks the US health care system 37th in the world, speaking to reporters on April 30, 2010:
“Now based on what I have seen I can tell you they [the North Koreans] have something which most other developing countries would envy.
For example, DPRK has no lack of doctors and nurses, as we have seen in other developing countries where most of their doctors have migrated to other places. But DPRK has enough doctors and nurses, they have a very elaborate health infrastructure, starting from the central to the provincial to the district level. One very important element they have is what they call “household doctor”. One doctor takes care of 130 families and about 500-550 people depending on the size of the family. So the doctors there work
in the clinic to provide family health care services.
Of course they use both traditional and western medicine. In afternoons they will do home visits, and they keep good medical records. I personally reviewed those medical records at the clinical level. But the only point I need to mention is the records are not computerized but manual. So that is something we need to address when we say they
need to improve the quality of data in order to use modern technology to properly collect those data and do analysis. It is very difficult to work on manual records. My sense is that the data needs improving. And in order to improve the confidence of partners, there is a good infrastructure that may be the entry of many people.”
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2010/20100430_chan_press_transcript.pdf
Michael Moore packs a hammer & sickle every time his vocal chords go off. His so-called ‘movies’ are full of hypocrisy and pretty much exhibit the notion that he hates his own country. He is also one of these ‘liberals’ who are loaded with money yet exploit people who are less off in order to capitalize on their own agenda & virtues.
As a Canadian supporter of the NCPA, I’d like to say that Michael Moore should pack up and head off to the old Soviet territory, North Korea, or Cuba. Then he’d be in his so-called ‘paradise’.