The Ryugyong General Ophthalmic Hospital, boasting peculiar architectural beauty, is located in the Munsu area of Pyongyang, where modern hospitals are concentrated.

Occupying a total floor space of 11 800 square metres, the hospital is a multifunctional and comprehensive ophthalmic complex, with a four-storeyed building for outpatients, an eight-storeyed one for inpatients and an eyeglasses shop.

There are vivid models of human eye on the front wall of the outpatient building and eyesight test chart on the outer wall of the inpatient building respectively, so it is immediately noticeable that it is an ophthalmic hospital.

The hospital has scores of rooms for treatment, examination and operation, which are provided with top-notch equipment. And the inpatient building is well furnished with lounges, children’s playing grounds, and a garden on its rooftop.

There are treatment rooms which can deal with cataract, glaucoma and other specific ophthalmic diseases. Patients go through a vision test, a slit lamp microscope-used test and other kinds of examinations, and, if necessary, they are put to additional examinations in diagnosis and examination rooms using relevant apparatuses.

The doctors are highly skilled and working with great care for patients.

They have applied effective treatment methods based on the accurate diagnoses of patients showing different clinical signs.

Recently, sophisticated surgical methods are introduced into removing vitreous body, proliferative retinal membranes and retina, achieving impressive progress in the treatment of proliferative vitreoretinopathy and diabetic retinopathy with complications that were quite impossible to treat in the past.

The hospital encourages exchanges of and seminars on clinical experiences to attain a goal of mastering advanced medical technology.

It has put its diagnosis and treatment of cataract, glaucoma, vitreoretinopathy and other eye diseases with high morbidity and vision loss rates on the world’s level through extensive studies of modern medical science and technology, and produced satisfactory results in clinical practice by introducing a lot of diagnostic and treatment methods.

Tens of guidelines and reference books for treatment worked out by the hospital have been distributed to the medical institutions across the country, and the holders of academic degrees and titles have grown significantly in number since its inauguration.

The hospital is capable of producing thousands of intraocular lenses a year, thus satisfying the domestic demand.

Thanks to the high ability and devotion of medical workers, many people have restored their eyesight.

Since its inauguration on November 1, 2016, nearly 60 000 people have received eye surgery and recovered from their eye diseases.

The letters of thanks sent by the patients and their families to the hospital are increasing day by day.