Thanks to the outstanding leadership of President
On November 13th, Juche 41(1952) when our country was in the war against the US imperialists, our government proclaimed its cabinet decision to enforce the universal free medical care system in all parts of the Republic.
Our government has established the advanced preventive medical system in the country.
Our socialist system does not spare state investment to provide the most favorable conditions and take all positive measures for the betterment of people's living and the improvement of their health.
Our government rationally distributes inhabited area, production enterprises and sanitary and public service facilities on the principle of preserving environment and providing health.
Our government has established the popular public health system in the country.
Thanks to the state hygiene administration and inspection system and public health system, the health status of the country has been improved and the undertaking to prevent and wipe out infectious diseases is carried on under the unified control of the state.
Our government has established public health system even in province, city and county and rationally distributed the public health institutions across the country so as to effectively wage an infectious disease control/prevention campaign.
County public health institution constantly gets health information in its area and conducts hygiene education work in a planned way.
The year of 2016 witnessed 38-fold increase in the number of hygienic and anti-epidemic organs as compared with the year of 1946.
Public health institutions and environment protection research institutes set a stationary observation spot and mobile observation spot and regularly measure air, water and soil.
Factories and enterprises operate work team-level, workshop-level and factory-level facilities for eradicating gas and dust and decontaminating waste water in order to prevent environmental pollution.
Our government has established a prevention centre-type medical service system.
This medical service includes measures to prevent in advance the cause of certain diseases in each special section and also measures to recover these disease sufferers through an early discovery and registration, a regular examination and positive treatment. Therefore, it is a positive and effective service to prevent in advance or find out in time and wipe out a disease.
Our government carries on the dissemination of public health information as a nation-wide undertaking.
Our country has a public health agency and hygienic information house at the central level, hygienic information house at all provincial-level public health centers and full-time propagator of hygienic information and hygienic information room at all city-or-country-level hygienic and anti-epidemic centers. These organizations are responsible for organizing and conducting the hygiene enlightenment for the residents in their areas.
With the enforcement the universal free medical care system and nation-wide and all-people public health system, our government has achieved a lot of success in the field of public health and believes firmly a brilliant prospect in its development.
As a result of the perfection of the nation-wide public health system, our country laid down reliable foundations for developing the public health in conformity with the trend of the world.
Now we are confronted with the tasks to intensify the struggle against Zika virus infection, birds' flu, malaria and other infectious diseases to protect the natural environment of the country and carry on at the higher level the hygienic enlightenment for people and to thoroughly implement our Party's popular policy of protecting and improving the people's health.
We will make every effort to implement our Party' s policy of preventive medicine by further conducting the research work about the scientific and technological problems arising in the field of public hygiene.
