Health

Health

Health is essential if we want to live our life to the fullest. We are responsible for our health. In order to be provided proper medical care, all people in the Czech Republic must be insured. Insurance is paid by employers.
Health care in the Czech Republic is provided either by state institutions or by private clinics. Insurance can be used even in the private clinic but people must pay extra for overstandard.
There are three types of health institutions - health center, general hospital and teaching hospital.
Hospital is a facility, usually located in a huge building or large complexes of buildings where ill and wounded people are treated from their diseases and wounds. Each hospital includes several departments such as surgery dept, dermatology dept, internal dept or paediatry. But a core of each hospital are hematology dept, X-ray dept and nuclear medicine dept because these enable doctors to determine diagnose within two hours. If somebody is ill, he must at first go to a GP who examines him and sends him to a certain ward. Only people who can't be healed at home or who are going to be operated are accepted in hospital.
Employees of hospitals are mainly doctors and nurses. Doctors cure seriously ill or injured people and nurses help them and take care of patients. Another important group of employees are ambulance drivers. They must be able to drive at high speed because they must transport seriously ill and injured people to hospital in a short time since each second of their life counts.

Each person is supervised from birth to death, or even before birth. The purpose of prenatal care is to supervise the baby and mother so that they are healthy and the baby can be born without problems. When the time of baby's birth is coming, mother goes to a maternity hospital. When the baby is born, he or she must undergo vaccination against children diseases.

Diseases can be divided into a few cathegories. Those are children's diseases, common diseases, civilisation diseases and fatal diseases.
Some children diseases are common, some are not. Common ones are for example mumps, measles, rubeola or chicken pox. It's really irritating disease because children have rash that itches unbearably and they tend to scratch it. But they shouldn't. Other diseases children are vaccinated against are tuberculosis, scarlet fever, tetanus, polio, smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough or rabies (we can contract rabies from wild animals). These diseases are more serious and also less common.