A hospital is a place where sick and injured people are given treatment.
Doctors and nurses look after patients.
The sick and the injured are called patients.
A hospital has a number of beds.
Patients are laid on beds.
Men, women and children are kept in seperate rooms, called wards.
A hospital has different departments.
Each department looks after one type of disease or illness.
A hospital also has an operation theatre.
Some injuries and diseases need operations.
Doctors do operations in the operation theatre.
Some hospitals also have dispensaries.
A dispensary sells medicines.
Answer the following questions
1 Who are treated in a hospital?
(a) sick and injured persons (b) healthy persons (c) persons of sound health (d) none
2 Doctors and nurses look after _ (a) maids (b) patients (c) children (d) women
3 A hospital also has an ___ theatre.
(a) wing (b) play (c) operation (d) dispensary
4 What does a dispensary sell?
(a) tiffins (b) chocolate (c) medicines (d) pens
5 Give the gender of ‘man’.