Health

Everybody in our country choose a doctor and many people go to one family doctor. At the present we have two types of health facilities operate: state and private ones. Medical care is free of charge, although there are now many private doctors. We don’t pay for prescriptions or for some medicines, but the others medicines we must pay. The health insurance system is undergoing some changes  at present. Employers pay health insurance for their employees  but everybody can pay extra money for his health insurance. Private people must buy their health insurance themselves.

Medical care is provided from birth to death. Soon after birth each child is vaccinated against such illnesses as tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and later smallpox. Each school child undergo a series  of preventive medical and dental checks up where his body is examined, his teeth checked and his eyesight tested.

If we feel unwell, we go to see to doctor. We make an appointment with the doctor in his surgery time. Then the nurse says “Next please” and she invites us into the surgery room. The nurse has to look for our medical record and wants to see our insurance card and then takes our temperature. She usually asks what the trouble is and then asks us to strip to the waist. The doctor wants to know if we have temperature, a good appetite and where we feel pain. Then he listens our lungs and heart. He also wants us to open our mouth and say “ah”. Sometimes he checks the blood pressure and feels the pulse. We have to say how we feel, if we have a headache, a sore throat, a cold, a cough. Finally he diagnoses the care and therapy and prescribes a medicine. Then we go to the chemist with our prescription and there we get medicine .e.g. antibiotics, vitamins, pain relievers and gargle.

The most frequent illnesses are: cold, flu, tonsillitis, sore throat, cough. Children¢s diseases are measles, German measles, chickenpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, mumps, whooping cough. Incurable diseases are cancer and AIDS.

The human body consists of a bony skeleton and muscles. Three parts of the body are the head, the trunk and the limbs. Head is consists of face, temples, eyebrows, eyes, ears, mouth, cheeks, jaws, chin. The trunk includes the chest, back, shoulders, abdomen. The internal organs are lungs, heart, stomach, liver, spleen, kidneys and towels. The leg is composed of thigh, knee, calf, shin and foot. Each foot has heel, sole and five toes. The arm consists of shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand and fingers.

Not smoke, take regular exercises, eat good quality food, have regular checks up, not drink alcohol, be on diet to keep your weight down.