In the middle of March 1980 the officials concerned in the sectors of legislation and public health presented the draft of the Law on Public Health that fully reflected the character and mission of the public health system and the principled issues to be adhered to in different fields of public health services to President Kim Il Sung.
Acquainting himself in detail with the draft, Kim Il Sung asked them why the supply of nutrients to children was not included in the law.
The officials explained that it was because that the Law on the Nursing and Upbringing of Children elucidated such issue. However, Kim Il Sung reaffirmed that it should be included for all that, adding that the supply of nutrients to children should be included by all means even though other articles might be simplified.
When adopting the Law on the Nursing and Upbringing of Children, Kim Il Sung saw that the article on fully supplying nutrients to children was formulated in particular, stressing that they should be fed well.
Nevertheless, Kim Il Sung once again called upon them to include the supply of nutrients to children in the Law on Public Health.
Hence, the article whose main point was that relevant state organs and social cooperative organizations should fully provide the children with nutrients indispensible for their health and growth, in particular, vitamins and stimulants to their growth was included in the law.
