On the occasion of the 80 th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) Pyongyang General Hospital was inaugurated thanks to the warm love for the people cherished by respected Comrade Kim Jong Un , who makes untiring and devoted efforts for the rights and interests, good health and longevity, and for the full and beautiful life of our people.

Since long ago, Comrade Kim Jong Un had in his mind a plan to build a top-class general hospital that would play a pivotal function and role in the health sector of the country and also provide our people with excellent environment and advanced service regarding their medical treatment, and has made relevant preparations for the past several years.

Comrade Kim Jong Un gave meticulous instructions to relevant officials to make sure that everything about the hospital, starting from the architectural design, every component, space and the environment meets all the standards of modern architecture and also has a soothing effect on patients both mentally and psychologically. He also saw to it that specialized equipment and facilities for different systems were all in place to ensure adequate sanitation in the hospital’s public health activities, and scientific accuracy and smoothness in its medical services.

He visited the hospital twice this year, in February and in September and said to the following effect: Public health serves as the criteria for the warmth of a country’s political climate, level of its civilization and its citizens’ quality of life as well as the soil for growing the power of life and a reliable index of national strength. Even the slightest inattention shouldn’t be allowed regarding the preparation for its operation so that the hospital, after its inauguration, would fulfill its intrinsic mission and role in treating and recovering of our people. All medical workers and nurses should be well-trained to be possessed not only of professional qualifications but also of warm human love and be devoted to the treatment of patients.

Indeed, thanks to the devoted efforts of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un for people，this land is witnessing a new history of socialist public health development to the wonder of the world in the current century as he gives equal weight to the building of the country’s public health capacity with the building up of national defence capabilities meant for safeguarding the life safety of our people from the threat of war, saying that the validity of the policies of the Workers’ Party of Korea lies in their indisputable people-centred character.

Thanks to the supreme and people-oriented socialist system of ours, our people will embrace all the new changes of the era whereby all their dreams and ideals are coming true, as the system of ours is designed to take full responsibility for people’s health and their livelihood.