The DPRK enforces complete and universal free medical care system that can be found nowhere in the world.
Following contents are the complete and universal free medical care system the DPRK enforces.
Medicine, diagnosis, examination, remedy, operation, doctor’s visit, hospitalization, meals and all other services provided by medical institutions for patients as well as outpatients are free of charge.
Round trip for sanatoria of the working people is paid by the state or social cooperative organizations. Such preventive medical services as delivery, medical checkup, consultation and vaccination are also free.
The DPRK pays special attention to the protection of health of women and children as well as to the caring of health of revolutionary fig
People’s hospitals and clinics are rationally distributed and modernly built in towns, rural areas, factories, enterprises, fishing farms and forestry workers’ villages. Maternity hospitals, children’s hospitals and other specialized hospitals and sanatoria are built in every part of the country to constantly improve specialized level of medical services, thus enabling the people to receive treatment anywhere at any time without any inconveniences.
The DPRK develops and widely introduces Koryo therapy, the Korean nation’s excellent remedy. It builds many modern recuperation facilities in the areas where there are hot springs and mineral waters and the areas with favourable climate, so that the people can enjoy more benefits of recuperation by natural factors.
The DPRK is now making efforts to improve quality of medical services and develop the socialist public health and, as a result, the people fully enjoy benefits of the complete and universal free medical care system.
