{"id":55765,"date":"2023-08-07T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=55765"},"modified":"2023-08-04T03:31:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T18:31:14","slug":"south-pyongan-province-sees-skyrocketing-cases-waterborne-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/south-pyongan-province-sees-skyrocketing-cases-waterborne-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Pyongan Province sees skyrocketing cases of waterborne disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cases of waterborne diseases are skyrocketing in North Korea\u2019s South Pyongan Province. Waterborne diseases spread every summer, but shortages of medicine are making it difficult to deal with the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany people have recently come down with diseases such as cholera and paratyphoid fever because they are drinking foul water,\u201d a source in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons. \u201cPeople in the mountains of Yangdok and Maengsan, where the water is good, don\u2019t get sick even if you tell them to, while many people fall ill in coastal areas with bad water [such as Mundok, Pyongwon and Sukchon].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is residents cannot receive proper treatment due to chronic drug shortages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHospitals haven\u2019t provided medications in a long while, and everything relies entirely on self-sufficiency. If you\u2019ve got a fever, you usually buy aspirin or phenacetin at the market, or if you\u2019ve got diarrhea, you buy diarrhea remedies or laudanum. But nowadays, due to drug shortages, you can\u2019t find the medications even if you\u2019ve got the money to buy them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June as well, Daily NK <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/n-korean-students-mobilized-to-farm-suffer-from-waterborne-illnesses\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 quoting a source in South Pyongan Province \u2014 that students mobilized for the rice planting season complained of abdominal pain after contracting a waterborne disease, but little was done for them due to the lack of medications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, North Korea suffers from severe water contamination because its decrepit water and sewage facilities do a poor job of processing wastewater. People are also contracting waterborne diseases from the contaminated water, with an especially large number of cases emerging in the hot, humid summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the voluntary national review (VNR) North Korea submitted to the UN in July 2021, only 60.9% of North Koreans had access to safe drinking water as of 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea cannot sufficiently purify water due to various supply shortages, including the chemicals necessary to disinfect the water supply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe state disinfects reservoirs, but due to a lack of chemicals, it just carries out a disinfection by passing the gravel and sand layers through a machine, and even then, because they do it so seldomly, mud comes out when it rains,\u201d the source said. \u201cIt\u2019s been ages since the smell of disinfectant came from the tap water.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June, North Korean authorities ordered South Pyongan Province to organize a task force to investigate the pollution levels and water quality of rivers and streams near factories to combat the unsanctioned release of industrial wastewater.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources who live inside North Korea, China and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230802-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cases of waterborne diseases are skyrocketing in North Korea\u2019s South Pyongan Province. 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