Inventor of Medical Apparatuses

Kim Ok Gum, doctor of the retina department of Pyongyang Municipal Ophthalmic Hospital, is famous for her sincerity and high qualifications.

In the past, she has cured a large number of patients with ophthalmic diseases by dedicating utmost sincerity.

Among them are 7-year-old and 12-year-old girls who had been blind due to retrobulbar optic neuritis.

Learning that owing to their special anamnesis, ordinary medicines were not very effective for them, she applied a new therapy combined with traditional Koryo therapy and thereby restored their sight to normal.

She is also an ingenious inventor.

Through ceaseless thinking and inquiry, she finally succeeded in making 90D lens, an auxiliary part for a device for eyeground examination, with locally available raw and other materials.

As it satisfies the optical properties of the instrument, enhances the field of view of the eyeground image and maximizes the resolution, the lens created a great sensation in the ophthalmic field.

The lens good performance has been introduced to provincial, city and county hospitals across the country.