Imagine a healthcare system in which amputations and major surgeries are performed with no anesthesia, hospitals that do not sterilize needles, hospital bed sheets that are so rarely washed they stink, and a population most of whom do not have the money to pay for their most basic medical needs – according to Amnesty International, North Korea has such a healthcare system. Amnesty International says the North Korean healthcare system is in “a dire state”…

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