While giving on-the-spot guidance to Hamhung University of Medicine in May 2008, leader Kim Jong Il said public health is unthinkable apart from sincerity and the latter is the attribute and life and soul of socialist public health.

The health care centers in all parts of the country have undertaken hygienic propaganda in varied forms and vaccination and medical examination in different realms, thus protecting the lives of the working people and promoting their health.

Provincial health care centers all over the country and lots of city and county people's hospitals have been rebuilt in compliance with medical requirements to improve radically the treatment conditions.

Health care centers restored the eyesight of many people by performing operations on cataract patients. And they carried out cancer examination of main viscera of millions of people to drastically lower the death rate from cancer by early discovery and treatment.

With successful test introduction of a remote medical service system, a foundation has been laid for exchanging data between central, provincial, city and county people's hospitals and for giving correct diagnosis and treatment without sending patients from local to central hospital.

Nearly twice as many working people as in the past recovered their health in newly built spa villages and reconstructed spa sanatoria across the country free of charge.

Innovatory results have been reported also from the hygienic and preventive field and pharmaceutical and medical appliance production sector.

Koryo medicine factories have been rebuilt splendidly and technical modernization of medical appliance factories has been carried out to produce quantities of multipurpose and ordinary dental apparatuses. And main pharmaceutical and medical apparatus factories in Sinuiju, Sunchon, Hungnam, Ranam, Nampho and other areas have been modernized.

The 12th National Sincerity Experience Symposium, a medical science symposium and a scientific and technical public presentation were held and a lot of papers of great scientific and clinical significance made public this year.