Department of cardiovascular surgery at Pyongyang Medical College Hospital was successful in an operation on the heart of a 2-year-old child just 2 years after the department was set up. When he visited the hospital and was told about the operation, an influential cardiac surgeon from a country said…2-year-old surgery department operated 2-year-old child. More surprising is that they conducted the operation on their own with a book for reference. You are saying that you are going to do such cardio surgery as tetralogy of Fallot, but you will probably fail even after 10 years. It is a baby’s dream of being a university student.

With the national pride of being the DPRK medical scientists, members of the department made untiring inquiry and practice, and thus acquired a new operation method and post-operation treatment for child congenital heart disease in 2002. In January the following year they succeeded in the first surgery of tetralogy of Fallot and performed decades of operations for the disease that year.

They gave pleasure and satisfaction to Chairman Kim Jong Il and the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un for having smoothly performed the world-level cardio surgery with their own techniques and wisdom.