Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea is powerfully carrying on the regional-industry revolution and the public health revolution, regarding the people's security and the promotion of their wellbeing as the foremost state affair, and the entities for prosperity are being erected one after another on this land thanks to its transparent outlook on people and its spirit of unconditionally serving them.

When the whole country has experienced the stirring changes and rejoiced at the news of the brilliant completion of the second year's task for implementing the Regional Development 20×10 Policy aimed to bring earlier the wonderful future of the construction of the ideal socialist society, Kusong City of North Phyongan Province greeted the day of inaugurating a base for advanced medical service conducive to the promotion of the health of its local people.

The Kusong City Hospital, which has been built thanks to the firm will of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to make substantial changes in local areas in order to provide the people across the country with more civilized and happy living conditions and enable them to enjoy the benefits of modern healthcare and under his direct guidance, is a proud result brought about by the new era of the regional development.

The inaugural ceremony of the Kusong City Hospital for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy took place with splendor on December 13.

The venue of the ceremony was overflowing with the boundless pride and self-confidence of the builders, who are making their devotion to labor to realize the long-cherished desire of the Party Central Committee, and the great excitement and delight of the people in the city, who would enjoy the benefits of advanced medical service earlier than others under the solicitous care of the Party.

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, attended the ceremony.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the ceremony, all the participants raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!", shaking the sky and the earth.

They extended their warmest gratitude to Kim Jong Un, looking up to him who is making the great and devoted efforts full of the round-the-clock thoughts and troubles to open up an era of prosperity, in which all the people across the country lead an affluent and civilized life as soon as possible, subordinating all the state affairs to the people's wellbeing.

Present at the ceremony were the participants in the 13th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, builders and officials of the Party and power organs and public health institutions and working people in North Phyongan Province and Kusong City.

Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, made an inaugural address.

Upon authorization of the Party Central Committee, he extended warm thanks to the designers, builders, officials of the relevant fields and working people who have realized with perfect creative practice the Party's long-cherished desire to provide all the people in Kusong City with a wonderful hospital in which the popular character of socialist public health is really embodied.

He also warmly congratulated the citizens of Kusong City who would lead a more civilized life with the completion of the modern hospital and medical workers and employees of the hospital who became the masters of the new workplace.

He referred to the fact that in the wake of the completion of the Kangdong County Hospital which showed the perfect and new appearance of a regional hospital for the first time, the Kusong City Hospital has been successfully built based on the plan and principles of the WPK on the construction of hospital in the new era.

He stressed that the wise leadership of the WPK to lay new foundations for public health in the regions has already brought about world-level changes in different parts of the country in the first year and, in this course, the principle and methodology of the construction of hospitals to be built in all cities and counties have been confirmed and the foundations for vigorously pushing ahead with the modernization of public health with full capability and confidence in it have been laid.

Saying that the days when the good fruition cheered by the people in line with the demand of the times has been made are associated with the great dedication of the great father, he referred with emotion to the devoted efforts made by Kim Jong Un who has laid foundations for building up the public health capabilities one by one, prioritizing it as the sacred cause for the lives and health of the people.

He stressed that the modern hospitals built in different parts of the country are a valuable result of the people-first politics that can be achieved only by our Party and state which have subordinated everything in the state and social life to the promotion of the people's health and wellbeing.

Noting that when the tasks of the public health revolution are boldly and doggedly carried out by taking more steps forward after the present dynamic first step, our public health would clearly represent the genuine image of socialist Korea, he ardently called for devoting the patriotic wisdom and passion with the firm faith in the validity and vitality of the WPK's policies and thus bring earlier the future of a prosperous and powerful country full of laughter and happiness of the people.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape of the Kusong City Hospital.

Fireworks were displayed and a large number of balloons rose up over the venue of the ceremony to be specially recorded in the dynamic course of making the public health revolution in the new era, beautifully decorating the sky in meaningful December.

All the participants raised enthusiastic cheers with the unbounded pride of holding in high esteem the great leader, who is taking care of all the people across the country with great enthusiasm and affection, taking them to his arms and bestowing more loving care upon them, as the father of the large socialist family and the boundless reverence for him.

Kim Jong Un warmly waved to the participants in the ceremony, wishing the regional people happiness and their families good health.

He went round various places of the hospital.

He said that the Kusong City Hospital is another precious creation which shows the will of the Party to change and strengthen the regions and the steady development to be achieved by the overall public health of the DPRK and, at the same time, makes the meaning of 2025, the first year of the public health revolution, clearer.

Recalling that the December Plenary Meeting of the WPK decided to build modern hospitals in 20 cities and counties simultaneously from next year on the basis of the experience gained in building regional hospitals into model ones this year, he said that it stands out as a pressing issue to put the ranks of medical workers on an advanced level as early as possible and that the talent issue is fundamental to the public health revolution. He added that, to this end, it is important to radically reform the state medical education system to suit the reality of the country and take a revolutionary measure for training specialists in the public health sector.

He stressed the need to push ahead with the work for improving the clinical and technical level and academic qualifications of medical workers in a tactical and offensive manner, indicating the important tasks to be taken by the state.

He also underlined the need to make normative guides and provide a scientific and technological guarantee so that modern medical facilities and equipment can be managed and operated properly.

Saying that the issue related to the operation of hospital is also an important political one for defending the Party's policies and the people's trust in the Party, he stressed that the Kusong City Hospital, one of the model units for modernizing public health, should create a good exemplary experience for the development of regional public health in the course of its operation, too.

Saying that another perfect hospital has been built and its construction is perfectly successful, he highly appreciated the efforts of the builders who proved the vitality of the Party's policy on the development of public health with devoted labor struggle.

Regarding the construction of the city and county hospitals as an essential and the most important task for implementing the regional development policy and powerfully pushing ahead with it are the most right option of our Party and state fully responsible for the lives and health of the people and the way they should surely take without any moment's delay as they have no right to put off, he said, expressing his firm determination and will to build modern hospitals in 20 cities and counties every year and thus build solid foundations for the country's pubic health in the near future.

He stressed that leading cadres and senior officials at all levels including members of the central leadership body of the Party should buckle down to implementing the regional development policy with the viewpoint that everything starts from now and develop all cities and counties across the country in a balanced, accelerated and qualitative way so that every step of the present day would lead to a substantial and comprehensive change in the regional areas and to the realization of the far-reaching ideal of national rejuvenation.

Going round the hospital equipped with modern medical facilities and excellent conditions for medical service, the participants in the ceremony keenly realized the greatness, truth and tremendous vitality of the original ideas and leadership of Kim Jong Un who is accelerating the building of a highly civilized and prospering state through new qualitative changes in regional areas.

The inaugural ceremony of the Kusong City Hospital, which significantly adorns the first year of the historic public health revolution, marked a significant occasion in giving full play to the sky-high spirit and enthusiasm of all the people across the country who are single-mindedly striving to successfully conclude the first-stage pioneering struggle for changes towards the comprehensive development of socialism and greet the Ninth Congress of the WPK as the one of victors and glory. -0-