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Many stories are continuously told about medical workers saving the lives of critically ill patients with their high medical skills and utmost sincerity in the public health sector.

The husband of Ri Yong Sil, a woman living in Segori-dong, Pothonggang District, Pyongyang, was admitted to the Radiotherapy Department of the Pyongyang General Hospital after suffering a severe pain for several months.

At that time, the vital signs of the patient were said to have reached a critical point.

Medical workers of the department, including chief Jo Sung Chol, applied themselves to an intensive treatment campaign for his recovery.

Ri said that she could feel the warm love and devotion of the medical workers at every moment of those days.

The patient became able to get up and walk again in some 40 days.

A woman from South Phyongan Province was restored to life by medical workers of the Tumour Institute of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

It was several months ago that she who had been diagnosed with an incurable disease and had almost given up her life went to the institute.

After examining her conditions, the medical workers gave her confidence telling her to be relieved as she could recover health.

However, she could not realize how many overnight meetings the medical staff held to find a treatment method suitable to her case.

Furthermore, Jang Song Hyok, section chief of the institute, and other medical workers prepared medicines and invigorating food for her after the operation and cared for her with warm affections lest she should feel lonely away from her family and, at last, restored her health.

She said that she had keenly experienced the happiness of living in the harmonious society, a society full of virtues and affections.

Kim Hyang Mi, a woman living in Yonggwang County, South Hamgyong Province, also cherishes deep gratitude to some medical workers.

They are the medical staff of the neurosurgery department of Hamhung City Hospital.

When her husband was taken to the hospital, his condition was at a critical point.

The medical staff held several consultative meetings to find a rational operation method and performed several operations and treatment, thus miraculously resuscitating the patient after dozens of days.

Kim expressed her heartfelt feelings that she could not forget all her life the benevolent medical workers who made sincere efforts to improve the condition of her husband with a life-threatening illness, adding they exemplified the true feature of the Korean society.