时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(三月)


英语课
By Nico Colombant
Bensonville, Liberia
11 March 2008

Liberia's health sector 1 is facing a rebuilding task of colossal 2 proportions after years of civil war and neglect left behind a destroyed infrastructure 3 and very little staff. This created conditions for very low life expectancy 4 and high maternal 5 death rates. But efforts by the post-war government, volunteer Liberians and foreign aid agencies are slowly bringing about change. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from Bensonville, in a district of Liberia without a doctor.


Joseph Nyanton manually operates decades-old lab equipment at the Bensonville hospital, as there is no electricity, and more recent equipment disappeared during the war.


"During the war, they ransacked 6 this place," he said. "You know the rebels, they came and took away everything. In fact, even the operation lights, they damaged it all. I think they did not even know what to do with it, but they just damaged it. You see."


But the hospital operates, even without a doctor, for the entire Careysburg district of about 65,000 people.


District health officer Rex Moses gives a tour of what is in name a hospital, but basically operates as a clinic. Women patients sit on wooden benches, many of them holding babies.


Moses says with the help of aid agencies and a new ambulance, he is able to save lives again. He gives the example of a woman and her baby from the nearby town of Harrisburg.


"After delivery, she started bleeding severely 7. We call it post-partum hemorrhage," he said. "Luckily for us, the Africare vehicle went there on supervision 8 and brought the woman to a distance that the ambulance could pick her up. And we did pick her up and immediately referred her to Monrovia. The information we are getting is that she is all right now. She received blood, about four pints 9 of blood. And she is back in Harrisburg. The baby is bouncing all right, the baby is OK."


Basic health packages, including for pregnancy 10 and infant care as well as malaria 11, are being offered for free, thanks to donor 12 help and the government making health spending its second priority in this year's budget, after education.


Moses says a plan to make the training of much needed doctors, nurses and midwives free as well, could be even more crucial.


"They are saying now it will be free of charge, absolutely free of charge. That is the message we are getting. That will encourage people to be trained and cut down the shortage of nurses and manpower in the country," he said. 'We were told that tests were to be given only in [the capital] Monrovia. But for the last test, they went all over the country to give the test."


In the meantime, volunteers, many of them jobless high-school dropouts looking for something to do, are being trained as community outreach specialists. These first line health consultants 13 go to remote villages, often by foot, to teach about nutrition, basic sanitation 14, family planning and preventative measures to combat common diseases, like malaria.


One of them, Martha K. Woheel, explains her motivation.


"What led me to want to be a volunteer is because our communities they are lacking. And then it is something concerning about health," she said. "So we have to educate them and it motivated me more, especially in the field of health."


One of 51 Liberian doctors in a country of more than two million people is Health Minister Walter Gwenigale.


"The three things that we want to take care of basically are; one, human resources for health, two, infrastructures 15 for health, and three, the support system," he said.


Gwenigale has pleaded with foreign donors 16 to allow Liberia's government to control more of the millions of dollars in health-related aid money so a more coordinated 17, long-term approach can be set in motion.


Some foreign donors and U.N. agencies have expressed concern over whether the free health-care system now in practice for basic services, as well as the free training being planned, are viable 18 in the long-run.


But Liberians, interviewed for this report, say they want as many lives to be saved as possible and as many health workers trained in a short amount of time, so that a nation and a health system very much in shambles 19 can be rebuilt.




n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
adj.异常的,庞大的
  • There has been a colossal waste of public money.一直存在巨大的公款浪费。
  • Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.那座城市里的一些高层建筑很庞大。
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
n.期望,预期,(根据概率统计求得)预期数额
  • Japanese people have a very high life expectancy.日本人的平均寿命非常长。
  • The atomosphere of tense expectancy sobered everyone.这种期望的紧张气氛使每个人变得严肃起来。
adj.母亲的,母亲般的,母系的,母方的
  • He is my maternal uncle.他是我舅舅。
  • The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。
v.彻底搜查( ransack的过去式和过去分词 );抢劫,掠夺
  • The house had been ransacked by burglars. 这房子遭到了盗贼的洗劫。
  • The house had been ransacked of all that was worth anything. 屋子里所有值钱的东西都被抢去了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地
  • He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
  • He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
n.监督,管理
  • The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
  • The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。
n.品脱( pint的名词复数 );一品脱啤酒
  • I drew off three pints of beer from the barrel. 我从酒桶里抽出三品脱啤酒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Two pints today, please. 今天请来两品脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.怀孕,怀孕期
  • Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
  • Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。
n.疟疾
  • 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。
n.捐献者;赠送人;(组织、器官等的)供体
  • In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下,接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
  • The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。
顾问( consultant的名词复数 ); 高级顾问医生,会诊医生
  • a firm of management consultants 管理咨询公司
  • There're many consultants in hospital. 医院里有很多会诊医生。
n.公共卫生,环境卫生,卫生设备
  • 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。
n.基础设施( infrastructure的名词复数 );基础结构;行政机构;秘密机构
  • Public transportation termini and depots are important infrastructures for a city. 公交场站设施是城市重要的基础设施。 来自互联网
  • The increasingly fast urbanization process requires more and more infrastructures. 我国城市化进程不断加快,对城市基础设施的需求也越来越大。 来自互联网
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.协调的
  • The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
  • The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
adj.可行的,切实可行的,能活下去的
  • The scheme is economically viable.这个计划从经济效益来看是可行的。
  • The economy of the country is not viable.这个国家经济是难以维持的。
n.混乱之处;废墟
  • My room is a shambles.我房间里乱七八糟。
  • The fighting reduced the city to a shambles.这场战斗使这座城市成了一片废墟。
学英语单词
absolute measure
Actinodaphne kweichowensis
ACUA
adenosine deaminase
Aldomin
amorphous magnesium alloy
anadromes
anionotropic
audio amplifier
bacterial cast
balneotherapist
barotalgia
Blewbury
carpet beaters
chemical gilding
chemical treatment of seed
collector film
communist economic conference
contact spring pile-up (contact spring assembly)
daubentoniids
dehydroiodination
despatchers
diopsides
effects bank
eleemosynarily
eliminative
Environmental Mutagen Society
eoten
erigeron annuuss
ethylnorephinephrine hydrochloride
exports department
eye base
F.1358
fastness to steam pleating
fiber tract of spinal cord
flight compartment
fling oneself upon someone's compassion
fluid tissue
foliiculi
have mercy upon someone
hook spanners
host transit time
huronian movement
hydraulic barker
immitigably
internal-pressure
isopentyls
Japanese poinsettia
krukenberg's hand
leniceroside
liquid casting resin
Malabar-nut
mercantile paper
microinflammation
modified asphalt
Montournais
morphological genology
multi-pages
navigant
Ningguoan Age
notched tensile specimen
photohalogenosubstitution
phytidium rugosum(ehrh.)kindl.
porphyrotopic
portable media center
praeteritio
pyritinol
quinlivan
red-baseds
regiones plantaris pedis
reroughs
Resia, P.di (Reschenpass)
resistant component
rolled around
routing data
run it on
sample tap
San Leo
semi coma
single-effect lithiumbromide absorption refrigerating machine
Sirenaic
soft free machining steel
spell-bound
stiltbird
stumed
submarine pickup point
talus spring
tarshiss
telegraph posts
telerobotically
the sixth sense
Thong Hai Xieng
Titanschorl
tubular hosiery
twiggiest
unguiform
unlooked-for
ursodiol
versipellous
wire line preventer
within-child
wojtek