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, visited the Kangdong County Hospital which is nearing completion on October 30.

He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK.

Going round various places of the hospital including the underground parking lot, inpatient ward, operating room and doctors' room, he learned in detail about the construction.

As he instructed officials to assemble and install in a responsible manner the medical equipment within November as the overall construction of the hospital has been completed at a highly qualitative level, he set forth various tasks for the preparations for operating the hospital.

He underlined the need to immediately disseminate the excellent experience gained in the construction of the hospital and exemplary creative spirit displayed in it to the regional construction units at all levels in order to vigorously launch the full-scale project of public health modernization all across the country at the highest qualitative level.

As the construction of hospitals, an ensemble of the latest medical technology and building techniques, is the sphere that requires a higher level of functionality and speciality than any other construction projects, it presents itself as a primary task to build up the regional construction forces capable of undertaking the huge projects for public health development in order to accelerate the implementation of them on a scientific basis and in a far-sighted way, he said.

Protecting the lives and safety of all citizens and promoting their health are the most important one of so many state affairs and, therefore, the WPK's policy for the public health revolution should be steadily expanded and intensified, he stressed.

Our important goal in modernizing the public health sector from now on is to build without fail such modern hospitals as the Kangdong County Hospital in 20 cities and counties every year, he said, adding that a decisive measure should be taken to expand the country’s forces for building the public health facilities.

He said that the forthcoming plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee will examine the issue of establishing such modern hospitals in the districts of Pyongyang Municipality.

He set forth a series of important tasks for the expansion and development of the public health revolution, including the issue of standardizing and optimizing the designs of general, special and other hospitals according to their classes and categories in architectural and health and hygienic aspects in the building of hospitals and the issue of making a foresighted calculation of the conditions for supplying various kinds of materials as the medical service facilities will be densely distributed across the country. Pointing out the backwardness and irrationality of the current national system of training experts in the public health sector, he also referred to the issue of reexamining the matter of training experts in the medical sector and taking realistic, substantial and strong measures to readjust it.

The construction of the Kangdong County Hospital, the starting point of the development of the public health sector in the struggle for regional development this year, will come to successful fruition before long, he said, adding that the present reality in which groundbreaking leads to inauguration in the same year is a clear proof of the validity and vitality of the Party's policy and an epitome showing the remarkable speed of advance of socialist Korea.

He assigned the tasks related to the inauguration of the hospital.