TWO-YEAR PEOPLE'S ECONOMIC PROGRAM -- PUBLIC HEALTH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600300321-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 321
• Publication Date: April 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INtELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORIATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
FlOW
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
North Korea
Sociological; Economic - Health
Thrice-monthly periodical
Pyongyang
21 dun 1949
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Today, there are about eight times as many infirmaries in North Korea as
there were prior to 15 August 1945. In addition, there are 60 public-health cen-
ters and nine medical colleges. During the period preceding the liberation, there
was not even one medical research center for contagious diseases nor one medical
supply manufacturer, but today there are 489 health and medical research centers.
In an effort to develop the public-health program on a par with national economic
progress, the government has appropriated a sum of 710 million won for the fis-
cal year of 1949 and 780 million won for 1950.
In 1949, there were 11 hospitals but by 1950 there will be 24 hospitals in
North Korea, and special emphasis will be placed upon children's hospitals, men-
tal institutions, stomatological and gastroenteritic clinics.
1949
Planned
by 1950
No of hospital beds
1,445
1,960
Medical examination stations
134
165
Contagious disease control centers
16
J3
Medical students to graduate
363
742
Epidemiological hospitals, sanitar-
415% (city) 4
61
% (city)
iums, and ch
ildren's hospitals
365% (village) 4
27
% (village
(Increase he
re an(in following
items based
on 1948)
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Emergency hospitals, maternity
wards, clinics, etc.
Tuberculosis sanitariums for
children and adults
Children's clinics and chil-
dren's care centers
Contagious disease research
centers, diagnostic clinics,
sterlizing centers, ete.
Foreign clinical centers for
villages
c0I7FIDEN m CONFIDENTIAL
1949
420% (city)
516% (village)
15 times (city)
24 times (village)
6 times (sanitarium)
4 times (bed)
9 times (clinics, cen-
ters)
18 times (bed)
11 times (centers)
14 times (drug mfg)
6277% (village)
15 times (city)
29 times (vill-
age)
7 times (sani-
tarium)
5 times (bed)
12 times (ciin-
ics,centers)
26 times (bed)
13 times (cen-
ters)
16 times (drug
Mfg)
The goal of the Two-Year People's Economic Program is that not even a single
township shall be without adequate medical facilities by the end of 1950.
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