Hyon Kuk Hae, a doctor of Gynecological Department No. 3 of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital, frequently gets phonecalls of gratitude from many women. Among them is Han Ok Gyong, farmer of a cooperative farm in Tongnim County, North Phyongan Province. Han was brought to the hospital in emergency in March this year. Hers was a […]
Tag Archives: Medical Care
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Sep
Sep
A few years ago, a foreign delegation visited the cardiovascular surgical department of the Okryu Children’s Hospital in the capital city of Pyongyang. After looking round its operating theatre and sickrooms, the members of the delegation were amazed to learn that the department is provided with sophisticated medical facilities, quite contrary to their expectation. They […]
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Aug
Aug
Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un sent medical supplies to the people in Taechong-ri, Unpha County, North Hwanghae Province. A meeting of conveying them took place in the county seat on August 15. It was attended by county officials, employees of the county people’s hospital and inhabitants of Taechong-ri. The chairwoman of the Unpha County Committee […]
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Jul
Jul
At the first sight, people are completely unaware that I was disabled for 20 years. When I was two years old, I had difficulty in moving my right leg. It got so twisted and deformed that I could not place my sole flat on the ground and even put on my shoe, and the right […]
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Jul
Jul
In January this year, a man who got hurt in his arm during work was carried to the Pyongyang University of Medical Sciences Hospital. The patient was in a critical condition—mutilation of blood vessels, nerve and muscle in his right arm. It was a demanding task. However, Kim Kuk Chol, researcher of the laboratory of […]
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Nov
Nov
Ri Sun Ae living in People´s Neighborhood Unit 106, Sangsin-dong, Sosong District, Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea, has this to say: “I am now writing with an urge to tell a story about our grateful socialist health system. It was in January last that my son Song Jin was carried […]
