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 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 design institutions.

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

He heard from officials concerned a report on the progress made in the project so far and the future 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 other sectors, to surpass them in ten years, he stressed that our spirit of serving the people and attitude to them should be examined once again in 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 Juche-oriented idea on architectural beauty.

Acquainting himself in detail 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 this project being carried out this year as model ones for the overall development of public health of the country.

In the course of this, optimal schemes for designing regional hospitals of different categories will be confirmed and on the basis of it, the future plans for building up the overall public health facilities will be drawn up in greater detail on the principle of ensuring economic efficiency and practicality, he noted.

He said that the construction of a hospital is an ensemble of the latest medical technology and building techniques and what is as important as the construction is the medical equipment and medical forces. Strengthening of the medical forces 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 of improving the specialist qualifications of the regional public health workers in particular and training 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 put forth various tasks for making 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 workforce before anything else in carrying out the Party’s policy on regional development without an inch of deflection, particularly stressing that all the construction regiments should have a vital stake in strengthening the ranks of skilled workers and push ahead with their training according to scientific goals and plans.

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

Expressing militant tribute to the lofty 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 for the wellbeing of the people with heroic and resourceful labour struggle.

Encouraged by his field guidance, all the soldier-builders hardened their determination to perfectly build the new assets for prosperity and model entities of civilization and rejuvenation for the regional people in this significant year, mindful of the trust of the Party Central Committee which put them forward at the outpost of the sacred struggle for regional development.