The people across the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are devoting themselves to the scientific and offensive great anti-epidemic war.

Practical guidance teams were dispatched to the provinces according to the decision of the Consultative Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea held on May 21. They are taking positive measures while acquainting themselves with the implementation of the Party and state policies in the first half of the year and correctly grasping the operation of the greatest emergency anti-epidemic system.

The Party organizations at all levels are intensifying the political propaganda offensives to overcome the anti-epidemic crisis by fully displaying the sense of organization and solidarity, moral traits and virtue peculiar to the Korean society.

The rapid collective diagnosis groups organized at the national-level hospitals maintain the round-the-clock operation of the telemedicine system to give timely technical assistance and take scientific treatment steps for those patients with abnormal symptoms frequently found at local hospitals.

A scientific research group has been organized involving officials and experts of the institutions concerned including the State Commission of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Public Health, the Academy of Medical Science, the National Hygienic and Anti-Epidemic Centre and the Pyongyang University of Medical Sciences. It is putting spurs to the researches for increasing the capability to cope with the state crisis.

The national emergency anti-epidemic sector and the emergency anti-epidemic units at all levels are resolutely waging the struggle to intercept the spread of the malignant pandemic and eradicate its source and, at the same time, making preparations to rapidly cope with prospective threat and challenge under a carefully thought-out calculation and plan.

Medical personnel of the Korean People's Army are sharing experiences and effective methods and generalizing rational proposals created at different posts in the course of supplying medicines, making diagnosis and taking curative and preventive measures.

The commanding group of the Ministry of National Defence has rapidly distributed to all pharmacies in Pyongyang City thousands of copies of explanatory notes recording the concrete directions of medicines, folk medical recipes and Koryo therapies and over 32,500 copies of general information on hygiene, making a contribution to raising the working people's awareness of scientific anti-epidemic work.

All provinces, cities and counties are strictly observing the hygienic requirements in the storage and handling of medicines which are supplied to the people.