According to Yonhap:
A U.S. charity group said Tuesday it has agreed with North Korea to expand its medical aid program in the impoverished nation.
Under the deal, the Washington-based Eugene Bell Foundation will construct three new wards at tuberculosis (TB) treatment centers in Pyongyang.
It is the fruit of a three-week trip to the communist nation by a group of 13 officials from the foundation.
“The number of patients at those treatment centers has grown as the activity of our foundation is increasingly known,” a foundation official said. “Every treatment center suffers a severe lack of wards.”
The foundation has long provided medical humanitarian assistance to North Korea, especially for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
In a new program, it is sending 770 million won (US$750,000) worth of TB medication to the North.
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U.S. charity group to expand medical aid program in N. Korea
Yonhap
2014-11-11
