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Ifang Bremer
Ifang Bremer is a former Seoul Correspondent at NK News. He has worked on investigations for The Guardian and The Observer and previously wrote features on Korea for Dutch newspaper NRC.
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News Nutrition supplies released, critical health supplies delivered to DPRK: UNICEFUN agency one of only a handful of entities to succesfully deliver aid to the DPRK during COVID-19 pandemic
Nutrition supplies from the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) have been released from a medical warehouse in North Korea to provincial pediatric and county hospitals, according to a new report from the aid organization. The nutrition supplies are meant to “resume critical curative and preventative services for children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM),” the report states. Among the supplies are “therapeutic foods, medicines including anti-biotics and micronutrient supplementation” for children under five and pregnant women, which were released from North Korea’s “Central Medical Warehouse” in the first quarter of this year. It’s not clear if the report refers © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |