Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) — At a time when essential projects at a trial stage are being successfully completed as part of the meaningful process of more expansive and new qualitative development in achieving the epochal cause of regional change acclaimed by the people and urged by the times, a modern regional hospital was inaugurated to prove the vigorous speed and bright prospect of the development of public health of our own style.
The splendid inauguration ceremony of the Kangdong County Hospital for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy was held on Nov. 19 as another remarkable result of expanding and promoting the Party’s grand programme for regional development on a long-term basis.
The venue of the inauguration ceremony was filled with great pride of soldier-builders who dedicated their toil and sweat to successfully build the creation of civilization for the people, following the road of valuable service at the outpost of the gigantic regional revolution, and excitement of the participants who gathered to celebrate the great auspicious event brought about by the policy of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
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, arrived at the Kangdong County Hospital together with leading officials of the Party and government.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un appeared at the inauguration ceremony.
The moment all the participants broke into thunderous cheers of “Hurrah!”
All the participants paid the highest glory and tribute to
Kim Jong Un who is making a sacred history of state building with his great pioneering spirit and absolute devotion, unfolding the bright blueprints for the all-round cultural efflorescence one after another out of his intense desire to provide the people with a new blessed life.
Present at the ceremony were secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, members of the central leadership body of the Party in Pyongyang, chief secretaries of the provincial committees of the Party, chairpersons of the provincial people’s committees, officers and service personnel of construction units, working people in Kangdong County, senior officials of Party and power organs in the municipality and officials and employees in the field of public health.
Kim Jong Un made a meaningful speech in commemoration of the inauguration of the Kangdong County Hospital.
Expressing his surging emotion of facing a moment that signals the second inauguration season for implementing the regional development policy and seeing the first entity of modern regional hospitals, he said that proclaiming inauguration in the year of groundbreaking is the standard speed of achieving our ideals and this will be sufficient to show the acceleration of the substantial rejuvenation of the whole country. And this is the speed of transformation and advance–the speed of Korea, he added.
This hospital has helped completely reversing the existing conception of a regional hospital; the course of its construction was exemplary and its operation will serve as an ideal model for the development of public health in the regions, he said, hoping that the medical workers, who will work at this wonderful hospital and are more excited than anybody else, will always approach patients with heartfelt sincerity, tender care and warm affection and protect their health with high skills.
Declaring that it is our Party’s determination to take revolutionary steps and advance more vigorously towards our-style modernization of public health to bring benefit to the people, he stressed that modernization of public health will guarantee the long-term development of the country and assure our socialist state of a bright future.
He ardently called for working harder with ardent passion and soaring spirit befitting the pioneers of a great revolution for the good of our motherland and people, for the day when the regions have transformed themselves and we prosper while leading a cultured life and for the beautiful future when peace, laughter, happiness and amicability will brim over in all parts of our country.
The participants responded with enthusiastic cheers to the passionate speech made by Kim Jong Un that gives a vivid picture of the future changes to be made in the life of the people across the country as soon as possible along with the realization of the long-cherished desire of the WPK which regards the people-first principle as its sacred political idea and lifeblood.
Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.
Confetti was thrown and a large number of balloons rose up over the venue of the inauguration ceremony to be specially recorded in the nation-building history in the new era.
Warmly acknowledging the cheers of the participants,
Kim Jong Un wished the people in Kangdong County great joy and happiness in the future.
All the participants offered their boundless thanks to
Kim Jong Un, looking up with deep emotion to the benevolent father of the large socialist family, who is devoting himself to translating into reality the ideal life in which the whole country grows prosperous and everyone enjoys happiness and comfort and making the contemporaries lead the life.
Kim Jong Un went round different places of the hospital.
He said that the hospital is a new sphere of regional rejuvenation developed by the WPK, a valuable result of making a breakthrough in accomplishing the historic cause of rebuilding the public health infrastructure on an advanced basis and a nation-wide scale and an epochal entity which newly formulated the concept of regional hospital in the true sense of the word.
For the WPK intended to guarantee the people’s rights and interests and promote their health and build a more brilliant and affluent future, there is no more worthwhile and honorable revolutionary work than the struggle to build faster many more creations of new civilization warmly welcomed by the people so that they can see with their own eyes, get substantial benefits and feel happy about it, he added.
Saying that we must neither slow down nor come to a standstill in our struggle to comprehensively and scrupulously create a development environment for advanced civilization in all regions of the country, he stressed the need to expand the construction of regional public health on a full scale from the coming year on the basis of reviewing the experience gained in this year’s construction of model hospitals of different categories.
Going round the hospital, the participants in the ceremony were struck with admiration at the civilized treatment environment and conditions of the hospital fully equipped with every condition for enabling inhabitants to fully enjoy an advanced medical service in their region like those in Pyongyang.
The inauguration of the Kangdong County Hospital serves as a significant and auspicious event of convincing the people of a new life and well-being to be come true in all parts of the country and an occasion of leap and progress of great practical significance in further expanding and implementing the WPK’s policy for the healthcare revolution. -0-
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