Hospital facts for children
A hospital is a place where a person goes to be healed when he or she is sick or injured. The difference between a hospital and other healthcare places like a GP’s surgery, or other doctors’ clinic, is that a hospital will have beds where patients can stay overnight.
These patients are called inpatients. Hospitals also treat people who do not stay overnight, called outpatients. Doctors, nurses and other staff (like physiotherapists and pharmacists) work at hospitals. Doctors use advanced medical technology to heal patients.
Old hospital in France
Patients who are staying at the hospital will always be under the care of doctors and nurses who are always available for taking care of the injured or sick patients.
Nurses come and see you every day to check up you are OK, take your temperature and blood pressure, and give you tablets if needed.
Some patients have operations done on them by surgeons in operating theatres. They are very well trained, so these operations are nothing to worry about.
Modern hospital in USA
The word hospital originally meant ‘a place where people can stay’. There have been hospitals for sick people since ancient times. They were often created and run by religious groups. In the early modern age, NHS hospitals get money from the government.
