Health of mother and child

Specialized medical establishments provide appropriate care for future mothers and newborns through diagnostic and preventive-cure measures to help women overcome different disorders and prevent them affecting the progeny.

Women who suffer, for instance, from heart defects are placed at the time of pregnancy and during delivery under the observation of obstetricians, therapeutists, biochemists, immunologists, hematologists.

Thanks to timely medical care and the availability of specific instrumentation and equipment at our hospitals, the women who suffer from such ailments go through pregnancy and delivery successfully. All mother and child health advisory centres conduct disease prevention and cure work.

Our medical science devotes much attention to the health of mother and child.

At present there are some research institutes for pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology and mother and child care in Ukraine. Their research and methods of treatment help controlling infantile infectious diseases and others.

2. Answer the questions to the text:

1. Who provides appropriate care for future mothers and newborns? 2. Where are women who suffer from heart defects placed? 3. Thanks to what do the women who suffer from ailments go through pregnancy and delivery successfully? 4. What work do all mother and child health advisory centres conduct? 5. What do our medical science devotes much attention to?

3. Say if it is true or false:

1. Specialized medical establishments provide appropriate care for future mothers and newborns.

2. All mother and child health advisory centres conduct disease prevention and cure work.

3. Our medical science devotes much attention to the health of mother and child.

4. There are no research institutes for pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology and mother and child care in Ukraine.

5. Their research and methods of treatment help controlling infantile infectious diseases and others.

Lesson 10

A Visit of a Doctor

1. Pre-reading activities

1.1 Read and memorize the words:

fall ill – захворіти;

a check-up - обстеження;

to examine the patient - оглянути хворого;

to listen to heart and lungs - слухати серце, легені;

to X-ray - робити рентген;

to make tests - робити аналізи;

blood test - аналіз крові;

urine test - аналіз сечі;

to check the blood pressure - виміряти тиск;

to take the pulse - виміряти пульс;

1.2 Match the words-combinations:

to have a sore throat полоскати рот

to stop the bleeding нежить

to have a bad cough запалене горло

to rinse the mouth зупинити кровотечу

to gargle the throat накласти шину

cold in the head сильно кашляти

to put splints полоскати горло

1.3 Fill in:

1. This patient has a ... heart. 2. ... the throat. 3. Put the ... on the broken arm. 4. Put a warm ... on the ear. 5. ... the mouth after meal. 6. Take a ... when you have a headache.

(rinse, gargle, splints, weak, tablet, compress)