The Ministry of Public Health set realistic stepwise goals and plans for introducing advanced diagnostic and treatment methods into provincial preventive and curative institutions across the country and pushed ahead with them.

Researchers of the Tumour Institute under the Academy of Medical Science have imparted techniques to medical workers in Kangwon and North Hamgyong provincial general hospitals and others to make new surgical methods be successful in treating patients.

Medical workers of the Kim Man Yu Hospital and the Pyongyang University of Medicine Hospital visited North Phyongan and North Hwanghae provincial general hospitals and others to organize technical courses in conformity with the actual conditions and exchange experience and impart technology in a responsible manner so as to take measures for correct diagnosis and scientific and effective treatment.

Similar successes were made by the medical team of the Koryo Medicine General Hospital.