Child health and social development
Raising children healthily is an important issue related to the future of a country.
But now, many children in the world are suffering from hunger and poverty and withering amid social confusion and conflict.
Amid the food crisis sweeping the world, 150 million children are undergoing trouble in growth due to malnutrition every year.
Children are also the main victims of measles, hand-foot-mouth disease, malaria and many other kinds of infectious disease spreading in different countries.
In our country, which regards the work for the rising generations as the most important affair, children are brought up at state and public expense.
A well-regulated system for producing and supplying nutritious foods for children is in operation to supply all children across the country with such foods including dairy products.
The health care, treatment, nursing and upbringing of children are steadily improving.
Nice nurseries and kindergartens have been built wherever there are children, and the sate takes full responsibility for the care of parentless children.
Meanwhile, various activities, including medicine supply to and vaccination of children and seminar and online lecture on child health care, are conducted on various occasions including Child Health Day.
Seeing their children growing cheerfully and vigorously in good environment from childhood, mothers in the DPRK are convinced of its future.