Protective Anti-Epidemic Stance Taken in DPRK

Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- All sectors and units of the DPRK are making every effort to preserve the protective anti-epidemic stance in keeping with the current nationwide stable anti-epidemic situation. The state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters has exerted big efforts to making sure that the practical measures for further improving the scientific accuracy and progress of the anti-epidemic work are materialized with perfect executive guarantee. Works are conducted to further perfect the test system for more correctly identifying the malignant virus and, at the same time, detect at an early stage every kind of epidemic diseases, which may break out according to the seasonal or regional factors, and take a timely preventive and curative step. And efforts are directed to establishing a new analysis process that helps monitor the outbreak and spread of epidemics by variants of COVID-19 and pathogenic microorganism. Also, making headway is the work to equip the test rooms of second level of biological safety, under construction across the country, with tens of kinds of equipment and facilities including real-time PCR and reinforce the examination equipment in the areas along frontline, boundary and coasts and epidemically dangerous zones. The emergency anti-epidemic units at all levels have intensively taken steps to quarantine and treat the sporadically occurring fever cases after making a detailed survey of them according to date and age and. They intensify the work to correctly judge the pollution level of rivers and streams by heavy rain at water examination posts set up across the country. The public health sector enhances the specialization level of treatment guides by constantly updating their contents on the basis of experience and lessons gained in treatment so far. The Ministry of Public Health and medical worker training institutions organize technical courses and lectures to help medical workers of preventive and curative organs at all levels improve the efficiency of their treatment of patients according to the treatment guides. The doctors in charge of households and hygienic workers are more positively conducting the medical check-up and health education in order to prevent every sort of poisoning cases, enteric epidemic, etc. which can break out in summer. On July 9 alone, a million and hundreds of thousands of anti-epidemic and public health workers and hygienic workers staged health education activities in residential quarters and relevant units. Measures are being taken one after another to reinforce the unified and professional system for ensuring smooth observance, forecast and control over epidemic diseases on a nationwide scale and build up the ranks of medical workers at the lowest preventive and curative units. -0-