{"id":52839,"date":"2022-09-23T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52839"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:10:34","slug":"north-korea-begins-annual-inspection-hospitals-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-begins-annual-inspection-hospitals-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea begins annual inspection of hospitals in the provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea recently informed authorities in the country&#8217;s provinces that the Ministry of Public Health will begin hospital inspections on Sept. 13, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Wednesday that the Ministry of Public Health carries out two inspections every year, one in the first half of the year and another in the second half of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis year, however, the inspection for the second half of the year started late as it was delayed due to the maximum emergency epidemic prevention system,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, North Korea ordered the inspection for 15 days starting Sept. 13. Prior to this, the authorities notified that they would be conducting cross-inspections, with health officials from North Hamgyong Province going to Yanggang Province and health officials from South Pyongan Province going to North Pyongan Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the latest inspection breaks with the previous practice of sending only Ministry of Public Health officials from Pyongyang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, the inspection order calls for \u201cinspection teams composed half of guidance officials from the Ministry of Public Health\u2019s headquarters in Pyongyang, and half of leading provincial health officials with insight into conditions on the ground.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The inspection will reportedly issue concrete evaluations of how far local hospitals have come in terms of medical standards since last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those evaluations will be based on:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How well provincial hospitals are supplied with basic medical necessities;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How well their operating rooms and emergency rooms are equipped;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many doctors have clinical experience;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether doctors took proficiency exams in the first half of the year;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many academic papers doctors published<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The inspection will also take a close look into the state of their inpatient and outpatient care, prescriptions, diagnoses and treatments during the first half of the year, in line with the country&#8217;s policy of providing free medical care and preventive medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, inspectors plan to scrutinize hospital responses during the 91 days of the maximum emergency epidemic prevention system, including their treatment of COVID-19 cases and distribution of medications and general statistics regarding deaths, quarantine cases, suspected coronavirus cases and fever cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The inspection will also carefully evaluate how much progress hospitals have made with traditional Korean medicine, which is a priority of the government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the authorities \u201cplan to use the inspection to underscore the importance of the role played by legal medical institutions and verify whether [hospitals] are carrying out activities in line with the Workers&#8217; Party desire to build the state\u2019s quarantine capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Ministry of Public Health warned that it would use the holistic results of the inspection to strictly determine whether public health officials are [behaving] responsibly or irresponsibly, and would hand down stiff punishments for shortcomings during general reviews,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has reportedly frightened every hospital in Yanggang Province, leading to worries that they will get in trouble during the inspections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe hospitals have launched campaigns to at least tidy up the sanitary state of the interiors and exteriors of their buildings in response to the announced inspections, even if nothing much will change,&#8221; the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220921-3\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea recently informed authorities in the country&#8217;s provinces that the Ministry of Public Health will begin hospital inspections on Sept. 13, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Wednesday that the Ministry of Public Health carries out two inspections every year, one in the first half of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":43849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[737],"class_list":["post-52839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-public-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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