The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the completed Pyongyang General Hospital on February 27.
While making the rounds of the hospital including emergency department, specialized treatment departments and general operating theatre accompanied by officials, he said that all demands of advanced architecture were thoroughly embodied to every element of the hospital and building work was done perfectly in conformity with the public health policy of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which gives precedence to the promotion of the people’s health and prioritizes their lives more than anything else, and with the construction policy for its implementation.
He gave important instructions which would serve as guidelines in architectural design, setting forth tasks arising in building new modern hospitals that would appear not only in Pyongyang but also in regional cities and counties across the country in the future.
What is most important in building a hospital, he said, is to design all elements, ranging from the site selection to building layout and arrangement of the flow lines, in conformity with the specialized technical requirements on the principle of guaranteeing the level of specialization and functional qualities peculiar to the public health facilities to make it convenient for medical service activities including diagnosis and treatment of patients. The design sector should lead other sectors at the present time when the scope of construction is steadily expanding and the struggle for achieving comprehensive national rejuvenation is being accelerated, he added.
The design of an architectural structure to be built by our socialist ruling Party for the people should properly combine modern character with national identity while prioritizing the defending of people’s life and safety and the promotion of their well-being, and reflect the great ideology and ennobling political creed of our times that aspire to higher ideals and civilization. In this sense, it can be said that designers are “political artists” who draw the ideas and policies of the WPK into reality, he noted.
