Pyongyang, June 3 (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, gave field guidance at a hospital and leisure complex under construction in Kangdong County of the DPRK on June 2.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Kim Tok Hun, Kim Jae Ryong, O Su Yong and other senior officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by commanding officers of the units of the Korean People's Army involved in the construction and officials of designing institutions.

First, he looked round the Kangdong County Hospital under construction.

He heard from officials concerned about a report on the progress made in the construction so far and the long-term plan for construction progress.

Going round various places of the construction site including the outpatient ward section, operating theatre section, inpatient ward section and the underground car park section, he learned in detail about the construction.

Saying that the work of building modern public health facilities in cities and counties across the country is a great revolution for developing the public healthcare which has lagged behind any other sector to surpass other sectors in ten years, he stressed that our spirit of devoted service to the people and attitude to them should be examined once again through the course of successfully carrying out this innovative plan with redoubled efforts. And he reaffirmed his determination and will to build all city and county hospitals into symbols of socialist public health in our era which fully embody the Party's plan for modernizing public health and its idea on Juche-oriented architectural beauty.

Acquainting himself with the functionality and convenience of elements of different systems of the hospital, he pointed out every measure to be taken.

He referred to the importance of responsibly building three hospitals of different scales including the above-said construction project being carried out this year as model ones for the overall rejuvenation of public health of the country.

In the course of this, best plans for obtaining optimum results in designing regional hospitals of different classes will be confirmed and on the basis of it, the future plans for building overall public health facilities will be drawn up in detail in the principle of ensuring economical efficiency and practicality, he noted.

He said that the construction of a hospital is the complex of the latest medical technology and building techniques and what is as important as the construction is the medical equipment and medical force. And the strengthening of medical force should be regarded as the main link in the implementation of the public health policy and the main work that should be pushed ahead with on a medium- and long-term basis, he said, repeatedly stressing the importance of the task to improve the specialist qualifications of the regional public health workers in particular and train medical workers in a systematic, scientific and future-oriented way. Then he clarified the orientation and ways to this end.

Saying that the pharmaceutical industry of the country should be radically boosted in order to supply enough medicines to hospitals to be built in all cities and counties across the country, he stressed the need to thoroughly examine the state system of supplying medicines and take reinforcement measures.

He also indicated different issues arising in preparations for operating the hospital.

Then he visited the construction site of the Kangdong County Leisure Complex.

He learned in detail about the construction from the commanding officer of the unit.

He said that it is most important to firmly prepare construction force before anything else in carrying out the Party's policy on regional development without an inch of deflection and particularly stressed that all the construction regiments should have a vital stake in strengthening the ranks of skilled workers and push ahead with the training of skilled workers under scientific goals and plans.

Referring to the issues arising in training competent designing and construction forces, standardizing and legalizing advanced construction methods and achieving rapid development of the building-materials industry throughout the country, he set forth important tasks for implementing them.

Expressing militant tribute to the high ideological and spiritual world and patriotic devotion of the soldier-builders who are struggling with a single mind for completing the construction of the hospital, leisure complex and regional-industry factories in Kangdong County on the highest level, he expressed expectation and belief that they would achieve excellent successes in the construction projects by upholding the Party's sincerity towards the people with heroic and resourceful labour.

Encouraged by the field guidance of Kim Jong Un , all the soldier-builders hardened their firm determination to perfectly build new wealth of prosperity and model entities of civilization for the local people this significant year, bearing deep in mind the trust of the Party Central Committee which put forward them at the outpost of the sacred struggle for regional rejuvenation. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.06.03.)