{"id":52127,"date":"2022-07-01T14:06:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T05:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52127"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:09:18","slug":"north-hamgyong-province-calls-officials-give-medicine-food-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-hamgyong-province-calls-officials-give-medicine-food-people\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Hamgyong Province calls on officials to give medicine and food to the people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a recent meeting on infectious diseases, North Hamgyong Province&#8217;s party committee called on officials to help local residents by giving them medicine and food.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in the province told Daily NK on Wednesday that the provincial party committee held a meeting to discuss measures to deal with infectious diseases on June 19. During the meeting, it appealed to officials in charge to take the lead in providing provincial residents with medicine and food, \u201cjust as Central Committee officials helped the people of South Hwanghae Province.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, those at the meeting received reports on the current status of infectious diseases in the province, including typhoid fever and paratyphus, and discussed measures to prevent infectious diseases from spreading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the meeting, North Hamgyong Province&#8217;s party committee handed out materials about infectious diseases to officials, pointing to issues to resolve in the quarantine and medical sectors. It also listed health and sanitation rules ordinary people should maintain in their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the end of the meeting, the committee has been promoting far and wide how Central Committee officials donated their own household medications to help the people of South Hwanghae Province, which suffered an outbreak of acute intestinal infections. Emphasizing how local officials should \u201cfollow their example and engage in support activities so that the people can overcome their difficult situation,\u201d they even engaged in their own activities to help.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBefore the meeting, the committee had already instructed local officials to bring several household medications, foodstuffs and kindling they have at home to the meeting hall,\u201d said the source. \u201cAfter the meeting, they made a show of visiting the people to help, and also carried out reviews [of how well donation-related activities have been conducted].\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The North Hamgyong Province&#8217;s party committee and provincial branch of the prosecutor\u2019s office reportedly received the most favorable reviews. The committee also ordered all workplaces to popularize the effort and report how well officials and their families helped local residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe provincial party committee was originally going to donate medicines to South Hwanghae Province, having seen Central Committee officials do it, but carried out the latest effort after deciding that with the situation in their own province so desperate, they should take responsibility for their own residents first and donate the leftovers to South Hwanghae Province,\u201d explained the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the source said they have incurred local dissatisfaction with what people call a \u201cmere formality,\u201d handing out just a few injections, pills or unappetizing foodstuffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLooking at what they handed out, locals smirked at or mocked the effort,\u201d said the source. \u201cThey ask, \u2018Are they making fun of the poor?\u2019 and say they wouldn\u2019t even try humoring a child in such a mean way, and that the effort is absurd.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220629-1\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent meeting on infectious diseases, North Hamgyong Province&#8217;s party committee called on officials to help local residents by giving them medicine and food.\u00a0 A source in the province told Daily NK on Wednesday that the provincial party committee held a meeting to discuss measures to deal with infectious diseases on June 19. 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