In April 1980, President Kim Il Sung saw to it that the Public Health Law of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was adopted at the Fourth Session of the Sixth Supreme People's Assembly. And he made public the famous work "Let Us Implement the Public Health Law to the Letter" to indicate the important guidelines to be held fast to in comprehensively applying the Juche-oriented idea and policy of the Workers' Party of Korea on public health.

The adoption of the Public Health Law made it possible to give fuller play to the advantages of the socialist health system, in which the Party and the state take care of the people's lives and health in a full responsible manner, and to provide a powerful weapon for developing the public health onto a new high stage.

Thanks to the energetic guidance of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un who set it as the eternal national policy of the DPRK to steadily develop the public health, the Breast Tumour Institute of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital, the Ryugyong General Ophthalmic Hospital, the Ryugyong Dental Hospital, the Okryu Children's Hospital and other hospitals were newly built and the medical service has been further improved.

Standard pharmacies with enough functions as a specialized dispensary have appeared in all cities and counties of the country, and the construction of advanced health facilities is progressing apace as part of the three essential projects added to the WPK's Regional Development 20×10 Policy.

Going round the completed Pyongyang General Hospital in February last, the General Secretary stressed that it is the firm determination of the WPK to bring about a revolution in public health in the new era and thus turn our public health into the most advanced, modern and world-class one.

Thanks to the leadership of Kim Jong Un who is writing a new history of the development of socialist public health with his ardent love and affection for the people, they are receiving the benefits of modern medicine to the full, enjoying a long and healthy life in happiness.