Present there were officials of public health organs, social organizations and media, the representative of WHO and staff members of missions of international organizations here.

Speakers called upon all people to turn out in a drive for solving the tuberculosis problem in line with the theme of this year set out by the WHO: finding out tuberculosis cases that fell short of being enrolled throughout the world and offering them correct diagnosis and treatment.

They called for arousing social concern over the importance of combating tuberculosis, gaining assistance for it, finding out all the tuberculosis cases and treating them in order to finally stamp out the disease.

There took place a contest of medical common sense related to tuberculosis.

Then the participants looked round photos on display.

There were also hygienic information services in Pyongyang and provinces to mark the day.