Medical Service in our country

It is widely known that good health is better than the best medicine. If your health is good, you are always in a good mood. The English proverb “Sickness in the body brings sickness to the mind” is true .

            The profession of a doctor  is one of the most noble, respected and needed in the world, as we turn to a doctor for advice at the hardest moments of our life, when we fall ill or suffer from pain or some disorder in our body and soul. We complain of low medical treatment, poor equipment of hospitals, difficulties in getting this or that medicine and so on.

            What a pity we start to value our health only when it is necessary to take medicine. Taking medicine is an unpleasant thing of course, and if we want to avoid it, we should go in for sport and keeps ourselves fit. Physical exercises to my mind are necessary. Physically inactive people catch cold more often than those who do plenty of exercises. Physical exercises are good pastime. If you do morning exercises you feel refreshed,  you have a good posture .

There is nothing more unpleasant than being ill. If you are running a temperature, have a splitting headache, feel dizzy or cough you go and see a doctor or send for him at once. She or he will come and take your pulse, take your temperature, listen to your heart, tested your lungs, measure your blood pressure, etc. Certainly, the doctor  will prescribe some medicine which you can get made up at chemists [drug-store].

 At chemist's shop you can get different kinds of medicines: pills, tablets, ointments and many other things. ( bandages, Cotton wool, antiseptics brilliant green)

I remember one of my most serious illnesses. It was four years ago. Illness started unexpectedly. Early in the morning I woke up and felt dizzy and feverish. I had a splitting headache and terrible cough. My nose was running, I was sneezing all the time. I could hardly recognize my own voice. Besides I was running a high temperature. The doctor asked me to strip to the waist, then sounded my lungs, felt my pulse, examined the throat. I had pneumonia  and I was to be taken to the hospital. I had to stay for a month there and obliged to get a lot of penicillin injections. In the long run I recovered, of course. But most of all I'm afraid of visiting a dentist. Toothache can't be compared with anything else .

Extracting a tooth or having a tooth filled are quite common things but very painful.

As to the character of health care in our country, the most distinctive feature of it is the attention paid to prophylaxis.

 In our country the primary medical care is provided by polyclinics. Our polyclinics are large units employing many doctors and nurses. Polyclinics have their own laboratories, X-ray, physiotherapy, surgical and dental departments. Some have even radiotherapy units. We have polyclinics for the adult population of a given area and polyclinics for children. Ambulant patients are seen at the polyclinic by district doctors. Patients who are seriously ill are visited by their district doctor at home. The doctor works 6 hours a day. For the district doctor his workday  is made up of (слагаться ) 3 hours in consultation at the polyclinic and 3 hours in visiting patients in their homes.

The emergency ambulance service operates day and night and is free of charge. In case of an emergency condition one has to dial 03, (or 103 using mobile phones)  for the doctor to come.

It seems to happen almost every day - you hear about the results of a new medical research study. Medical research involves research in a wide range of fields, such as biology, chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology. The main goal of this   is developing new medicines or medical procedures or improving existing ones.

As for scientific problems medical research is concerned with the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular, viral, and oncological diseases, the problems of gerontology, medical genetics, immunology and the development of artificial organs. Modern non-invasive/minimally invasive techniques of the surgical treatment of ischemic heart disease have been introduced.

 Here some simple  rules of good health:

1. Take long walks in the open air as often as you can.
2. Keep your body clean.
3. Keep your teeth clean.
4. Wear clean clothes.
5. Sleep with your window open.
6. When you are reading or writing let the light come from your left shoulder.
7. Have plenty of fruit and vegetables all the year round: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”.