Health and diseases 1.

Health and diseases 1.

Everybody in this country has the right to choose a doctor. We can choose state or private doctors. All our citizens (občané) are covered by health insurance [in ˡšuərəns]. Employers pay insurance for their employees, private people must pay for their insurance themselves and the state pays insurance for children and retired [ri ˡtaiəd] people (důchodce).

Medical care in this country is provided (poskytována) from birth to death. Each school child is under medical supervision (pod lékařským dozorem) which means that he or she has to undergo (podstoupit) preventive medical and dental check-ups. Children often suffer from children’s diseases such as otitis [əu ˡtaitis] (zánět středního ucha), measles [mi:zlz] (spalničky), smallpox [smo:lpoks] (neštovice) or rubeola [rubiələ] (zarděnky).