India To Send $1Mln Worth Of Anti-TB Drugs To North Korea - Foreign Ministry

NEW DELHI (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 24th July, 2020) The Indian government has approved a shipment of anti-tuberculosis drugs worth $1 million to North Korea, the External Affairs Ministry said in a press release on Friday.

"India is sensitive to the shortage of medical supply situation in DPRK and decided to grant humanitarian assistance of US$1mn in the form of anti-Tuberculosis medicines," it said, referring to North Korea by its official name.

The move comes in response to an appeal by the World Health Organization, a UN agency in charge of an international anti-tuberculosis program in North Korea, which has one of the world's highest TB rates.