Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- The North Hamgyong Provincial People's Hospital saved a patient from a critical condition some time ago.

The patient, who had suffered a third-degree burn in 70 percent of his body, returned to life thanks to utmost sincerity of medical workers and Chongjin citizens.

The patient is a worker of the Komusan Cement Factory.

The hospital held scores of consultative meetings to take proper measures to save him.

During more than ten skin transplantations, not only workers of the cement factory but teachers and students of Chongjin Medical University, Chongjin University of Mining and Metallurgy and other educational institutions in Chongjin donated their blood and skin pieces.

Most of the donors were strangers to the patient, but they did laudable deeds, regarding him as their revolutionary comrade.

Witnessing their sincerity and her son's recovery, the mother of the patient said, "I am really grateful to General Secretary Kim Jong Il for guiding our socialist society based on love for human beings."