Kwail County People’s Hospital
They
call the Kwail County People’s Hospital a youthful hospital because it
brings people youthful vigour and good health. The call refers to the
achievements the hospital has made for a dozen years.
Visitors
to the hospital are struck with wonder at its glistening floors. Rooms
for doctors and nurses, treatment rooms, rooms for inpatients and all
other rooms have been renovated with high-grade building materials and
equipped with choice furnishings.
They
newly built a two-storey building for surgical operations and buildings
for preventive departments Nos. 2 and 3. And all treatment rooms are
airtight and germ-free.
Besides,
the doctors’ qualifications have improved. They are now able to perform
by themselves difficult and complex operations previously recognized as
those to be done only at provincial or central hospitals. The surgical
department boldly set to and succeeded in a traumatic vertebral fracture
operation, a subdural haematoma operation, a nephrotomy and a
splenectomy they could not even think of performing in the past, putting
an end to the existing idea that a large-scale operation was impossible
in a county hospital. The ophthalmic department has become able to
perform extraction of a cataract and insertion of artificial crystalline
lens they could not do in previous days, though with the necessary
equipment, because the operations require delicate techniques.
The
hospital also has been fully equipped with up-to-date medical
facilities such as a multi-purpose ultrasonographic device and a
television camera-based transmission device.
The
head of a delegation of a foreign humanitarian organization who visited
the hospital said that the rural hospital was very impressive and that
he, if possible, wished to be born again in Korea and live in the county
with such a hospital.
Jo
Hye Yong, who began to work as the directress of the hospital over ten
years ago, says, “People call me youthful director of a youthful
hospital. I would like to accept their call as their highest
commendation of me and their expectation that I will keep working in an
innovative manner.”