Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Pyongyang General Hospital Nearing Inauguration

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits
Pyongyang General Hospital Nearing

Inauguration

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the
Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea, visited the Pyongyang General Hospital nearing
its inauguration on September 23.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Jo Yong Won,
secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Ju Chang Il, Kim Jae Ryong
and Kim Yong Su, department directors of the Central Committee of the WPK,
and officials in the field of public health.
He was greeted on the spot by leading members of the hospital and
construction and design units.
He went round various places of the hospital including the image diagnosis
department, emergency department, general experimental test department,
specialized treatment departments such as dental department and internal
intensive treatment department, general operating room, inpatient ward,
conference hall and helipad.
Saying that we have paid deep attention to ensuring that architectural
aspects, ranging from design to all spatial environments, in hospital
construction can be beneficial to the treatment of the physical and mental
health of people, he noted that it is important to provide the patients with
mentally and psychologically stable environment and conditions for treatment
as treatment and recuperation are main in the hospital. He appreciated that
the interior and exterior of the hospital are unique and refined in the
architectural aspect and various colors are well combined with in a way to
raise the visibility and formative beauty, thus giving modern and comfortable
feelings.
Learning in detail about the interior finish of the hospital and preparations for
medical service, he said that the primary attention has been paid to ensuring
the smooth medical treatment plan, ranging from the layout of facilities and
composition of space to the flow relation and the plane structure of individual
rooms, and it is a great development made in our design field. He made a
satisfactory appreciation of the fact that the functionality and specialization

level of the hospital are high and the spatial and functional connectivity is
ensured wonderfully.
The hospital facilities and treatment equipment should be good, but the
important thing is the forces for medical service, he said, adding that as there
is a saying that the treatment hinges on medicine and mind, the main thing in
the treatment is the high level of medical practices and sincerity of a doctor in
charge of a patient. He gave an instruction to make all the medical workers
and nurses well prepared to devote their all to the treatment with warm human
love as well as professional qualifications.
Saying that three modern city and county hospitals are to be inaugurated at
the end of this year and the beginning of the next year and 20 regional
hospitals to be built every year from next year, pursuant to the Party's policy
on regional development, he stressed that Pyongyang General Hospital
should play a key and leading role for sure in implementing the Party's policy
on healthcare revolution intended to rebuild and dramatically develop the
country's public health on an advanced basis.
He clarified a series of important tasks such as the issues of renewing some
architectural styles in future hospital design, working out the detailed one for
every element according to the long-term development plan and exactly
predicting and reflecting the future demands and changes in it.
He said that it is needed to build an advanced and efficient digital medical
service network and medical treatment system in city and county hospitals like
Pyongyang General Hospital which put the whole course of its management
and medical service on an IT and intellectual basis. He noted it is important to
establish a nationwide public health and medical service infrastructure
comprising central hospitals and provincial, city and county hospitals as well
as individual families.
He added that we would study a series of important issues for further
strengthening the foundations of the country's public health including the issue
of setting up such essential medical treatment organs as emergency stations
between city and county hospitals and ri clinics according to the population
density and geographical and traffic conditions under the supervision of the
relevant policy-oriented guidance department of the Party Central Committee
in the future.

He referred to the complicated problems occurred in the course of the
construction of Pyongyang General Hospital since the day of its
groundbreaking ceremony.
He said that the main reason why its construction was delayed compared to
the others was disorder in organizing the economic work due to the desire for
fame sought by some leading officials of the then Cabinet and the officials of
the then coordination commission for the construction of Pyongyang General
Hospital, which resulted in the creation of the artificial obstacle inside the
country, even though it was affected by the objective factor caused by the
global health crisis.
He noted that, in those days, they pushed ahead with the construction at their
own discretion without the approval of the total budget for construction
reflecting the hospital scale and the change in design while neglecting the
financial discipline of the state, and thus brought economic losses. The more
serious problem was that they set up even an organization in the form of aid
panel at will and conducted the campaign of fund-raising and aid across the
country, he said, adding that it was led to a serious political problem of
distorting the original intention of the Party, which initiated a glorious and
worthwhile project for the people with sincerity in order to realize its cherished
desire.
He said that the people-oriented character of this work initiated by our Party
was almost to be misled and the prestige of the Party undermined due to the
politically very immature people who failed to discern the purpose and
character of this construction plan which the Party designated as its cherished
desire and the fame-seekers who thought of being praised for their share by
poking their noses in the construction to which the Party pays direct attention
and gives importance. Among the officials who had done such an
unreasonable act at that time were former senior officials of the
Organizational Leadership Department of the Party Central Committee, who
were politically responsible for the construction coordination commission, he
said, adding that in order to recover the political loss caused by the fame-
seeking individual officials who regarded their names more important than the
Party's policy, we had to take a special measure inevitably and separately to
pay all the funds back in December last year to the units and residents who
offered aid funds to the construction of the hospital.

He said that the wrong practices and complications revealed in the course of
the hospital construction resulted in its delay for one and a half years and this
is a simple example showing the undisciplined practices in economic work,
subjective desire of officials and their immaturity in political guidance still
latent in the state. It presented the necessity to further increase the political
preparedness of leading officials of the Party and government and gave a
serious lesson related to the vacuum in our work, he added.
Saying that the political significance and innovative might of the construction
are incomparably increasing in the course of our struggle to advance from a
revolution to a more gigantic one and from a stage of development to a higher
level of transformation, he stressed we should bear in mind that however
difficult and hard it may be at present, every edifice created by dint of self-
reliance should be the precious wealth of happy and comfortable life for our
people and posterity and a substantial asset for the national development.
Noting that hospital, a functional building which requires highly strict and
specialization level compared to any other fields, can be called an
aggregation of architectural technology, he indicated in detail the ways for
eliminating shortcomings revealed in the construction of the general hospital
and its preparations for medical service.
He said that we should develop designs of public health facilities before
anything else in order to put the country's public health sector, which was
lagging behind the other fields, on the level of the world. To this end,
organizing the design institute specializing in the architectural designs,
ranging from the central hospitals to the city and county hospitals, clinics and
pharmacies, presents itself as a primary issue, he said and indicated
organizational and structural measures for it.
Expressing his pleasure of greeting the day when the one of the cherished
desires is to be realized in the long run, he said with pride that the foundations
of country's public health will experience fundamental change if modern
hospitals rise up in over 200 cities and counties across the country in the
future and Pyongyang General Hospital will be splendidly recorded in the
history of the new era of the country's construction as a monumental entity
symbolic of the first year of the healthcare revolution led by our Party and the
first substantial starting point of the public health rejuvenation.

Noting that Pyongyang General Hospital is a present our Party gives to the
people on the occasion of its founding day, he gave detailed instructions
related to its inaugural ceremony. -0-