Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- The 17th national experience-swapping meeting of public health workers took place at the Myohyangsan Medical Appliances Factory in the DPRK from Nov. 7 to 9.

Present there were Minister of Public Health Choe Kyong Chol, Sin Pong Gil, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials concerned, exemplary health workers.

The meeting heard successes and experience gained by health workers in the course of their devoted medical service and emergency anti-epidemic work to protect and promote the lives and health of people, true to the Party's healthcare policy.

The speakers vowed to fulfill their responsibility and duty as health workers defending the socialist healthcare system by learning from the noble mental world of An Kyong Sil, a chief nurse of the Unchon County Hospital who is a model of the devoted service movement.

During the meeting, there was a lecture on important issues arising in conducting the devoted service movement. -0-