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The Munsu Rehabilitation Clinic is located in the Munsu area of Pyongyang.

According to Kim Hyon Ju, director of the clinic, a large number of people have received medical treatment and recovered their health over the past ten-odd years since the inauguration of the clinic.

The clinic is equipped with hundreds of kinds of medical facilities and appliances.

Patients with nervous system disorders are treated at the neuro-rehabilitation department in the exercise therapy room, ADL room and pediatric room. They say that the conditions for treatment are excellent and the medical workers are highly skilled and devoted to patients.

In the mud and paraffin therapy room, they use mud of Lake Sijung which is well known for its efficacy.

According to medical workers of the clinic, various treatment effects of mud work well on the digestive, nervous and cardiovascular systems.

The hydrotherapy room is also popular with patients for its special treatment method.

According to a therapist, the underwater exercise therapy relieves pain with the stimulation by warm water of 31-33℃ and it is efficacious for various diseases, especially arthritis. Therefore, the hydrotherapy room is frequented by middle-aged women and old people.

The clinic also treats disabled people.

Pak Chol Song, a department head of the clinic, said that the treatment for functional recovery is regarded worldwide as the third medicine for improving the mental, physical and living abilities of patients and disabled persons, adding that various kinds of medical apparatuses made by the technical group of the clinic are highly appreciated by them.

As the clinic is winning greater favour with people, it is making greater efforts to further improve the quality of its service.