opinion

Raising children healthily is an important issue related to the future of a country.

But now, many children in the world are suffering from hunger and poverty and withering amid social confusion and conflict. Amid the food crisis sweeping the world, 150 million children are undergoing trouble in growth due to malnutrition every year. Children are also the main victims of measles, hand-foot-mouth disease, malaria and many other kinds of infectious diseases spreading in different countries.

Since the beginning of the Gaza crisis, scores of thousands of children have died or been injured in the region. A UNICEF spokesman recently said that 26 000 children have suffered from malnutrition in the Gaza Strip of Palestine. Even at this moment, many children in the region are suffering from hunger and various kinds of infectious diseases.

It is an unpardonable unethical act to take away children’s precious lives and deprive them of their happy lives, beautiful hopes and happy homes.

In our country, which regards the work for the rising generations as the most important affair, children are brought up at state and public expense.

A well-regulated system for producing and supplying nutritious foods for children is in operation to supply all children across the country with such foods including dairy products.

The health care, treatment, nursing and upbringing of children are steadily improving.

Nice nurseries and kindergartens have been built wherever there are children, and the state takes full responsibility for the care of parentless children.

Meanwhile, various activities, including medicine supply to and vaccination of children and seminar and online lecture on child health care, are conducted on various occasions including Child Health Day.

Such reference books and videos as “Mother is first doctor for baby”, “Child health and food”, “Common knowledge of children’s disease treatment”, “Child raising and common knowledge of family health” are very helpful to mothers.

The child disease combined management program for smart phone and tablet PC is also greatly conducive to timely preventing and treating diseases occurring among children under the age of five and improving their health care.

Seeing their children growing cheerfully and vigorously in good environment from childhood, mothers in the DPRK are convinced of its future.