Article 56 of Chapter 3 of the DPRK Socialist Constitution in which great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the people-first principle, is embodied stipulates that the State shall protect people’s lives and improve the working people’s health by consolidating and developing the system of universal free medical service, strengthening the district doctor system and the preventive medicine system and improving the material supply to the field of public health.
As stipulated in the constitution, the DPRK consolidates and develops the system of universal free medical service to reliably guarantee the people’s lives and health.
It has established in a few years a nationwide telemedicine system whose main content is to make consultation between patients and doctors and to give technical course to medical workers.
Tele-operation support system, tele-management system of women’s health and tele-management system of children’s health were introduced throughout the country.
As the nationwide telemedicine system has been established, many successes are made in diagnosing and treating patients and preventing diseases.
Here are examples. A baby of a worker in Kyongsong County, North Hamgyong Province, the northern tip of the DPRK, who fell into a critical state soon after birth, was recovered miraculously and a boy in Samjiyon City stood on the ground.
Nobody but the privileged people receive telemedicine system in other countries, but in the DPRK, everyone is benefited by the telemedicine system while leading a happy life in good health.
The DPRK that spares nothing for the people’s health and lives and provides them with benefits of the most advanced medical service is, indeed, a true country of the people.
