KOFIH-Korea Foundation for International Healthcare> Healthcare Assistance for North Korea

The North Korea healthcare support project is a project to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of North Koreans and realize a healthy Korean Peninsula in preparation for reunification. KOFIH aims to achieve mutual exchange and the realization of a healthy community on the Korean Peninsula for the life, health, and future of both North and South Koreans.

North Korea healthcare cooperation project


2019 ~ Present	International Symposium jointly hosted by the National Assembly and National Health Insurance Corporation
2018 ~ 2019	Held the Public-Private Partnership Forum for Inter-Korean Health and Welfare
2013 ~ Present	Opening North Korea Healthcare Support Academy
2019	Amended the white paper on the North Korean healthcare
2018	Establishment of Action Plan for Inter-Korean Health and Medical Cooperation
2015	Trained the healthcare practitioners of North Korea (Germany)
2013	Published North Korean healthcare white paper
2012 ~ 2014	International seminar on healthcare assistance for North Korea
2010~2012	Project to vaccinate North Korean children against hepatitis B
2009	Hosted the Korea-Germany symposium in preparation for the integrated South-North healthcare
2008	Seminar on North Korean healthcare development assistance tasks and implementation strategies
2008 ~ 2009	Koryo Pharmaceutical Factory Construction Program (basic design)
2007 ~ 2017	TB and other infectious diseases control project in Naseon, North Korea
2007 ~ 2008	Supported North Korean pharmaceutical factory to manufacture basic medicine
2007 ~ 2009	Trained North Korean healthcare workers (Germany)
2006 ~ 2009	Supporting and providing ambulances (Ministry of Unification-WHO commissioned)
2006 ~ 2009	Follow-up management of the already-supported projects (Onjeong People’s Hospital, the Red Cross Hospital, clinic in Gaeseong Industrial Complex)