Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kangdong County Hospital Nearing Completion

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits
Kangdong County Hospital Nearing

Completion

Pyongyang, October 31 (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 Kangdong County Hospital which is
nearing completion on Oct. 30.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Jo Yong Won,
secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK.
Going round various places of the hospital including the underground parking
lot, inpatient ward, operating room and doctors' room, he learned in detail
about the construction.
He gave instruction to assemble and install in a responsible manner the
medical equipment within November as the overall construction of the hospital
has been completed at a highly qualitative level and indicated various tasks
for the preparations for operating the hospital.
He underlined the need to disseminate the excellent experience gained in the
construction of the hospital and exemplary creation spirit displayed in it to the
regional construction units at all levels without delay in order to vigorously
launch the full-scale project of public health modernization across the country
at the highest qualitative level.
As the construction of hospitals, which is an ensemble of the latest medical
technology and building techniques, is the sphere that requires higher level of
functionality and proficiency than any other construction project, it presents
itself as a primary task to build up the regional construction forces capable of
pushing ahead with the huge projects for public health rejuvenation in order to
accelerate its implementation on a scientific basis in a far-sighted way, he
said.
Protecting the people's lives and promoting their health are the most important
state affairs than any other one and therefore, the WPK's policy for the
healthcare revolution should be steadily carried out in an expanded and
intensified way, he stressed.

Our important goal of modernizing the public health sector from now is to build
modern hospitals like the Kangdong County Hospital in 20 cities and counties
without fail every year, he said, adding that a decisive measure should be
taken to expand the forces for building the public health facilities in the
country.
He said that the forthcoming plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee
will examine the issue of establishing modern hospitals like the Kangdong
County Hospital in the districts of Pyongyang.
He set forth the important tasks for the expansion and development of the
healthcare revolution, including the issue of standardizing and optimizing the
design of general hospital, special hospital and other hospitals in architectural
and health and hygienic aspects according to their classes and categories in
the building of hospitals and the issue of making a foresighted calculation of
the conditions for supplying various kinds of materials as the medical service
facilities will be densely stationed across the country. He also pointed out the
backwardness and irrationality of the national system of training experts in the
public health sector, and instructed to reexamine the issue of training experts
in the medical sector and take realistic and substantial strong measures to
readjust it.
The construction of the Kangdong County Hospital, the starting point of the
development of the public health sector in the struggle for regional
rejuvenation this year, will soon reach a successful result, he said, adding that
the reality in which groundbreaking leads to inauguration in the same year is a
clear proof of the validity and vitality of the Party's policy and an epitome
showing the remarkable speed of the advance of socialist Korea.
He assigned the task related to the inauguration of the hospital. -0-