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Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Work Marked

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, October 19 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture Thursday to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "Socialist Medical Science Is Preventive Medicine". The President published the work on Oct. 20, Juche 55 (1966) in which he laid down the principle of socialist medical science which puts emphasis on preventive medicine and the basic principle of promoting socialist health and ways to abide by them.
    Choe Chang Sik, minister of Public Health, in a report said that the work serves as an immortal banner for strictly observing the principle of giving priority to prevention in public health and ultimately solving the public health problem of the working people.
    He recalled that the President took epochal measures to implement popular policies on healthcare and conduct sanitary and cultural campaigns as all-people movements including the adoption of the Law on People's Health, the Law on Environmental Protection and the enforcement of the section doctor system, while wisely leading the work to free the working people from the fetters of disease.
    The reporter went on:
    The people have benefited from the system of free medical care and a dynamic drive has been under way to prevent diseases generation after generation even under the difficult situation where the country was hard pressed for everything. This stirring reality clearly testifies to the great vitality of the advantages of man-centered socialism of Korean style and the Juche-based idea of preventive medical science.
    The reporter underscored the need for all the medical workers to channel primary efforts to implementing the Workers' Party of Korea's policy of preventive medicine, put hygienic and anti-epidemic work on a modern and scientific basis, increase the production of Koryo medicine and thus improve the medical service.
    He called on the officials in the field of public health to effect a fresh turn in the public health and thereby give full play to the advantages of the socialist public health system.
    The meeting was attended by Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and others.