At a Clinic in a Mountainous County

One day in August 1966, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung visited a clinic in Sakju County, North Phyongan Province.

Saying that one needs antibiotics when one contracted pneumonia, he asked an official of the clinic if the clinic had a sufficient store of antibiotics, including penicillin.

The official took antibiotic injections out and piled them up on a table. Kim Il Sung took an injection and examined the number of its unit. He inquired about the quantity of antibiotics supplied to the clinic a month. Hearing the answer, he expressed satisfaction with it.

He then inquired if the clinic had a sufficient store of medicines for common cold, indigestion, external wounds and hand disinfection, and said that in order to bring up children to be healthy, vitamins, especially vitamins D and A, and calcium pills should be provided to them sufficiently.

Thanks to the wise guidance of Kim Il Sung who was always concerned for the promotion of the people’s health, medicines were regularly supplied to small clinics in mountainous counties.