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Ryugyong General Ophthalmic Hospital Treats Many Patients
Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- The Ryugyong General Ophthalmic Hospital has treated more than 111,500 people and conducted over 1,600 operations requiring ultramodern technology for the past two years since its opening.

Its medical workers successfully carried out more than 910 operations with the cataract phacoemulcification based on their own techniques.

The cutting edge operation methods effective in the ophthalmologic section were developed, giving the patients with incurable ophthalmic diseases the pleasure of sight.

With warm sincerity, members of its field treatment team conducted checkup and treatment among many workers at the units associated with guidance exploits of the great leaders such as the Komdok Mining Complex and the Pyongyang Thermal Power Complex.

The hospital stored more than 150,000 pieces of data at its e-library and put the IT level of ophthalmic medical service on a higher stage by completing the information service system for electronic clinical record and management control and the telemedicine.

It developed various kinds of medical supplies including the artificial lens and over 20 kinds of medicines and served tens of thousands of people with glasses.

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