Marshal Kim Jong Un made sure that the modern children's hospital was built true to the behests of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and named it "Okryu Children's Hospital."

The hospital has treatment wards and rooms, operating rooms, sickrooms, study rooms, amusement rooms and rest places.

The hospital is putting treatment on a regular and standardized basis and widely generalizing the achievements made at the heart-blood vein surgical department and gastroenterology department in all other clinical departments.

An eye-opening success was achieved in the difficult operation to cure congenital heart disease.

More than 80 000 children from across the country have been examined and treated and hundreds of serious cases and children suffering from congenital diseases been cured since the opening of the hospital.

Telemedicine system was established at the hospital in December 2013 to connect provincial children's hospitals. Since then at least 1 200 children received cutting-edge medical treatment and dozens of children whose lives had hung in the balance were successfully treated at children's hospitals in North Pyongan, Jagang, North Hamgyong and other provinces.