A WHO Seeks S.Korean Aid for North's Health System
SEOUL - The head of the World Health Organization asked South Korea on Wednesday to (1)____________ to its efforts to repair communist North Korea's (2)___________ health system.
``There are many (3)_________ that need to be filled and there are many people who suffer from a (4)___________ of medical equipment, drugs and even (5)_____________ problems like electricity and water,'' WHO director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland told reporters Brundtland said she met South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and health officials in Seoul and informed them of the (6)___________ conditions she found earlier this week on her first trip to North Korea, which has been
(7)____________ by famine and economic(8) __________.
``They are poor, they have a big (9)____________ of disease and children are suffering,'' she told a news conference. She said the(10) _____________ rate had (11)__________ by more than 35 percent in recent years.
North Korea has suffered (12)__________ food shortages as a result of floods, (13)___________ and (14)_____________ of an economy that has been(15) ___________ since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the(16) ____________ of aid and subsidized trade.
Brundtland said the WHO hoped capitalist South Korea would continue helping the communist North. She thanked health authorities for the $500,000 South Korea had contributed to combat malaria
(17)___________ North Korea's border(18) ___________ the South.
The WHO upgraded its four-year-old emergency office in Pyongyang to a(19) ____________ mission on Monday, a move Brundtland said would(20) ___________ access to suffering North Koreans.
The United Nations plans to present a(21) ___________ appeal(22) __________ development and emergency efforts in North Korea next week, including an appeal from the WHO for $8 million in (23)___________.
Brundtland said her meetings in Seoul did not(24) ___________ in specific South Korean
(25)___________ of aid. South Korea has given more than $575 million in aid to the North since 1995, second only to the United States, according to the Seoul government.
With North Korea's relations with the South at a stalemate, however, some South Koreans are
questioning the value of continuing a(26) ___________ aid program that has not been matched by North Korean efforts at economic reform. Brundtl and told reporters she offered North Korea WHO
information on (27)____________ diseases, including anthrax and(28) ___________ diseases that might be spread(29) __________ in the wake of the September 11 suicide(30) ____________ in the United States.
But she said she did not (31)____________ in discussions(32) ___________ the North's alleged germ warfare program. The United States told a U.N. gathering in Geneva this week that North Korea had violated
(33)__________ banning the production of biological warfare agents.
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1-If the person is deemed a risk to himself or others, he may have to be committed to hospital. 2-The study, carried out by the Emergency Medicine Research Group at the University of Warwick, revealed that more than a quarter of ambulances are delayed because of communication problems. 3-Kentucky surgeons who implanted the world's first self-contained artificial heart in a 59-year-old man more than two months ago was so successful that they will try a second have such device in a 70-year-old man.
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