VOA标准英语2010-Health Workers in Haiti Fear Spike in Inf
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(四)月
Dr. Megan Coffee examines a patient named Stanley who has tuberculosis 1 at Port-au-Prince Hospital
Port-au-Prince General Hospital is the largest hospital in Haiti. Some of its buildings were damaged during the earthquake, but with the help of international medical organizations it has remained open. On any given day, more than 300 patients arrive looking for care. More than two months after the quake, doctors are seeing less of the crush injuries they saw right after the earthquake. Now, as the rainy season begins, they're concerned about infectious disease.
Dr. Megan Coffee is an infectious disease specialist from California. She has spent the past two months volunteering at Port au Prince General Hospital.
She's concerned about the likely spread of infectious disease in Haiti. She said the medical needs of the population have changed since the January earthquake.
She said doctors rarely see the cuts, crushed limbs, and broken bones that were common early on.
"These tents use to be all orthopedic injuries, all people who had been injured in the earthquake," said Dr. Coffee. "Now some of them are post-op patients, post surgical 2 patients. Some are still patients remaining from the earthquake."
With the rainy season beginning and much of the population in closely confined spaces in tent cities, health workers are on the lookout 3 for infectious and water-borne diseases.
"The problems of typhoid and malaria 4 are going to grow with tent cities, with people who don't have the best sanitation 5, and, having sitting water which is the cause of both those diseases," Dr. Coffee added.
Tuberculosis, a highly contagious 6 respiratory disease, is another concern. Of the 300 patients who come to the hospital each day, about 4 have tuberculosis.
Stanley is one of them.
"[Stanley] came in with tuberculosis that had filled up his entire left lung, and had also started to fill up his heart," explained Dr. Cofee. "He came in quite ill, basically unable to breath and needed to have a tube put in to drain the fluid."
Dr. Coffee says in Haiti, patients often wait until a condition reaches a crisis stage before seeking treatment. And that makes recovery more difficult.
"It is really important for people like him to be able to be treated," she added. "Because otherwise, if they were to go home without full treatment, they would be quite infectious to all of their neighbors."
Stanley has been in the hospital for two months. Half that time was spent with tubes in his chest.
Dr. Coffee says there's no way to tell if malaria, typhoid, and tuberculosis are on the upswing since the earthquake. But with the rainy season looming 7, they could spread quickly.
- People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
- Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。
- He performs the surgical operations at the Red Cross Hospital.他在红十字会医院做外科手术。
- All surgical instruments must be sterilised before use.所有的外科手术器械在使用之前，必须消毒。
- You can see everything around from the lookout.从了望台上你可以看清周围的一切。
- It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.如果利率降不下来，公司的前景可就不妙了。
- He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
- Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。
- The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看，这个地段非常糟糕。
- Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
- It's a highly contagious infection.这种病极易传染。
- He's got a contagious laugh.他的笑富有感染力。