Eyesight Restored
"I had my eyesight restored after 11 years of blindness. I walk by myself. It is because of the good socialist system of my country, I think. Thank you very much."
This was said by Choe Sun Hui living in Tangsang-dong No. 2, Mangyongdae District of Pyongyang. She had an operation on the eyes at the Pyongyang Municipal Ophthalmic Hospital last summer.
Doctor O Kyong Hui performed the operation.
I say there was less than 10 percent of hope."
While working as an ophthalmologist for almost 10 years, O Kyong Hui has seen so many patients but her concern was serious in front of the patient with special symptoms.
It is said that she could not make a decision to perform the operation readily.
She said she had thought a lot about the responsibility of a doctor and told about the time when she was assigned to the position of eye doctor.
"I stayed in a dark room for a while with my eyes closed to know how I feel if I go blind.
I thought it is really painful to live in a dark world and even a streak of light in the eyes of a patient would be a great help.
I thought it is the responsibility of an eye doctor to add even a streak of light to the patients."
The responsibility of a doctor can be displayed when he or she treats the patients just like treating them as his or her own children, parents and blood relations. This was the answer she found while treating the patients.
Choe Sun Hui was not an exception to this rule.
O Kyong Hui put herself in the place of the patient and her husband and mother.
Regarding the patient as her own flesh and blood, she gave an intensive treatment to restore the eye sight of the patient. And she showed love and affection to her with concern about her mental state and health.
Medical workers of the hospital pooled their minds and gave strength and courage to her.
Busy as they were with their work, doctors helped the blind patient spend pleasant days and nurses took warm care of her lest she should feel any inconveniences in life.
Choe Sun Hui could leave the hospital more than 40 days later.
In those days, doctors, nurses and inpatients of the hospital, officials of a station where her husband on a long official trip was working, her villagers and many other people were so concerned about her, Choe Sun Hui said with excitement and continued:
"I thought when I was coming out of the operating room guided by a nurse. I did nothing great for the country, but all people were concerned about me. How happy I am. Such a thing is possible only in this country where all people form a large family, I think."
This is our socialist system, a beautiful world of humanity where people are pleased at the fact that an ordinary woman had her eyesight restored.