HOSPITALS IN NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R014500090007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 27, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
CLASSIFICAT((}~ SEOR~T
SECURITY INFORMATION
~~F'QRMA`~Mt`)~1 REPORT REPORT N0.
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COUNTRY Korea
SUBJECT H.aspitals in north Korea
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~'aedong-gun People's Hospital
In duly 1952 the Taedong,gun People's Hospital was in three buildings built
partially underground at approximately 125m~+1~ 39-12 (YD~325>+38)o The director
w~,s KANG Songmch'o1 (1660~2052~0811)9 a 35-year old native of Sunan
(125->a-lq 3912) (YD~32~+2~ wha graduated from- the Pyongyang Medical C,'ollege
and was a member of -the Labor Party. T.he hospital had a staff of 30 employees,
1n early ~fiuly the hospital. had 30 patientsp all of whom were bombing victimso
The Medical Control Section, under the supervision of the Provincial Public
T3ealth Bureaus supplied medicines once a month, Sixty percent of these meth-
tines were Soviet made 20 percent American9 and the remainder Koreane The
two sick ward buildings each had eight sick rooms9 each of which accommodated
three' patients.
31 :Field Hospital
24 In early August the 31 Field Hospital of the North Korean army was at 2'ongp'y~n.g-
dong (12~+~25~ ~+0~01) (XE~2130). The hospit~.I could acoomrnodate 1,000 pati.entse
Medical supplies were imparted from the USSR and C'zechoslovakiao
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~or~h Kax~ean Army Ce~itral Hospital
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~n early August the North Korean army Centx?al Hospital was by a stream
a.pproxi.mately 30? meters southeast of the Nongsong railroad stat:i.on in
~a.mgus~.g~ni (125 ~-~7 ~ 39m~8) (`~~~+135 ~ b The building used as the hospital was
fo~?merly the Pusan~myon Primary Schabl. The hospital could accommodate abou~f;
300 surgical. cases and 250 medical eases at a timed A11 of the patients were
:~vrth Korean or Chinese Communist eoldi.erso On the hospital staff were seven
Soviet .raedieai officers, twenty North Korean army medical off~.cers~ and mo~?e
than twenty nurses:,, Drugs and medicines were supplied by the T7SSR and China
but .the supply was inadequateQ
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