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.
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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.
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