The DPRK stipulates by law and thoroughly implements the basic principles of securing the working people’s rights to health, thus protecting their life and promotes their health.
The DPRK sees that the principle of consolidating and developing the universal free medical care system and the preventive medicine system, the principle of putting preventive medicine on a modern and scientific basis and the principle of planned training of health workers should be thoroughly maintained.
Complete and universal free medical care system being enforced in the DPRK is steadily guaranteed by the solid independent national economy and the popular health policy of the state. Preventive medicine is the basis of the DPRK’s socialist medicine.
The state develops the Juche-oriented medical science and technology and provides public health with full material and technical means so as to put the preventive and curative medical care on a modern and scientific basis. It also trains the health workers systematically and raises their technical level steadily and thus makes them true servants of the people.
The DPRK also considers it as an important principle for the protection of the working people’s health to strengthen the guidance and control over the public health service and realize international exchange and cooperation in the field of public health.
It considers it an important guarantee for further consolidating the public health system and properly carrying out the state’s policy on public health to strengthen guidance and control over public health and realizes it as required by the developing realities.
It also maintains the principle of developing exchange and cooperation with other countries and international organizations while widely introducing the successes of advanced modern medical science and technology in the field of public health.
