"OUT OF BREATH" follows a group of volunteers who travel to North Korea to help those with TB.
"OUT OF BREATH" follows a small group of international volunteers who travel to North Korea every 6 months. They work side by side with North Korean doctors to fight the spread of a deadly infectious disease called multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Each visit, the volunteers deliver medicine and check progress, but the heavy lift of treating and caring for the patients is left to the North Korean medical staff. Working together under difficult conditions, the volunteers and North Koreans have forged unexpected bonds and achieved something incredible - one of the highest MDR-TB cure rates in the world.
I saw this last night on NHK (Japanese TV Network). It is available on the web until July 16th.
It is eye-opening to see real North Korean medical staff working with a international non-profit to cure people with multi-drug resistant TB.
You should watch this very good look at real people in North Korea before NHK removes it from the web - for some reason they never leave their programs up there very long. I guarantee that you won't be disappointed with this program - politics is pushed off to the side and both sides are just interested in helping cure these very sick people with hard to treat conditions.
burfman.........
[link:https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/vod/lens/20170703/|
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Not only is this a wonderful humanitarian effort and a medical breakthrough, but a much more viable alternative to sanctions to further international relations! 