According to Dr. and Associate Prof. Ri Hak Chol, deputy director of the Pyongyang Medical College Hospital of Kim Il Sung University, the event was held on the theme of preventing diabetes by properly taking care of health everyday.

Fundamental to healthcare in the DPRK is preventive medicine, he said, adding:

Many achievements were made in health service thanks to the Workers' Party of Korea's policy of preventive medicine.

Recently, the "Guideline for a Management of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Mellitus in Primary Health Care Setting" was worked out in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO).

On the basis of the guideline, medical institutions are stepping up prophylactic treatment to prevent diabetes. Telemedicine proves effective in the work.

Hygienic information service is also carried on among citizens. And various Koryo medicines are introduced in the treatment of diabetes.