Some time ago, a girl recovered herself from severe speech, memory and motor disturbances caused by cerebral palsy.

Even her parents had given up recovery from illness. But she was cured of her illness by Doctor Choe Chang Sok at the clinic of the Songyo Disabled Soldiers' Ironware Factory.

Now we are going to tell you about the medical worker who devoted his all to resuscitate the child.

Stepping sounds in haste...

Five years ago a woman with a five-year-old girl on her back came into the clinic of a construction company in Pyongyang.

She came to see a doctor who was well-known for treatment of incurable diseases. The doctor was Choe Chang Sok.

It is said that the condition of the patient, So Hyon, was quite hopeless at that time.

Doctor Choe Chang Sok, too, was embarrassed at first though he had some experience of curing spastics.

It was not simply because of the lack of self-confidence, but because of his sincere feelings coming from the sense of responsibility that he must cure the little child of her congenital disease.

From such a sense of duty, he challenged the established theory that the disease cannot be cured by modern medicine.

He immediately got to medical treatment while observing her constitution and symptoms.

He made pharmaceutical experiments and clinical demonstrations several times to find out reasonable composition of Koryo medicines and their mixing ratio.

He also took care of his patient with kindred feelings while conducting medical treatment and research work at the same time.

There is a Korean saying that what comes from the heart goes to the heart. His sincerity proved it. As the days and months passed by, So Hyon got better.

The spit running at the mouth all day long stopped, the tongue started to get untied gradually and the mnemonic centre came back to life. When strength began to grow in the paralyzed hands, the child came to write barely.

It took 10 days for her to take a pencil properly and a month to count from 1 to 100. Through the fact alone, we could feel the warm humane feelings and utmost sincerity of Choe Chang Sok.

When So Hyon began to speak, her first word was "doctor" instead of "mum".

Choe Chang Sok had done all he could as a doctor and a human for several years to cure a child.

Thanks to his devotion, So Hyon could speak as fluently as other children to amaze her parents.

Later when he was asked how he could make such an amazing success that can be a miracle in the modern medical world, Choe Chang Sok said sincerity is a famous medicine.

Sincerity is a famous medicine. All the medical workers in this country like to use the phrase.

It is because this short sentence fully represents the real feature of our socialist public health system which values the life of people most.