The work, published on May 1, Juche 65 (1976), indicates the tasks and ways of improving the management of the hospitals.

Present at the symposium were officials concerned and medical workers in Pyongyang.

They heard medical science papers dealing with the successes and experience gained in the researches to put the preventive and curative healthcare and the management of hospitals on a modern, scientific and IT basis to carry out the tasks set forth in the work and the party's idea of building a highly civilized socialist nation.

Highly appreciated at the symposium were papers "Study of the efficiency of healthcare through telemedicine", "Study of the method of working out a strategy for managing hospitals" and "Study of putting the management of hospitals on IT basis".