Compulsory education given in hospitals

时间：2007-08-17 07:08:47

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Chinanews, Beijing, Aug 17 - “ant，ant，all so small…”On Wednesday, several kids were singing a song in their wards1 at Shanghai Children's Medical Center. A group of volunteers were teaching them English. It didn't seem like a hospital here—the walls were painted with bright colors and some toys and books were placed on the floor. The room was filled with a warm atmosphere, the People's Daily reported.

 

He Jiajia, 7, came to Shanghai Children's Medical Center to take an operation on appendicitis2. She was recovering now and she began to like the volunteers in the hospital.

 

Everyday, whenever they had time, the volunteers, a group of teachers from Pudong Nanlu Primary School, would come to Shanghai Children's Medical Center to visit the kids. They played games with the children and also gave them some lessons from time to time. In fact, Shanghai Children's Medical Center is not the only case in point, for, starting from September 1, all children who stay in hospitals in Shanghai will receive some lessons free of charge. With this, Shanghai is to become the first city in China where compulsory3 education will be given to children in hospitals.

 

In Shanghai, 99.8% of the children at school age have received compulsory education. Despite this, local government did not neglect the 0.2% of children who were excluded from the compulsory education system. In order to make sure that every child in Shanghai could receive compulsory education, officials from the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission turned their attention to this special group of children.

 

The Shanghai Municipal Education Commission has recently announced that starting from the fall semester, school courses will be given to children who stay in Xinhua Hospital, the Affiliated4 Fudan University Children's Hospital, Shanghai Children's Hospital, and Shanghai Children's Medical Center. According to a rough calculation, the new measure will benefit some 800 children who cannot go to school due to some chronic5 diseases.

 

Zhu Jing is a teacher who works at the Dong Li Feng Mei Kang Jiang School, a school opened for retarded6 children in Shanghai's Xuhui District. Apart from her usual daily courses, every weekend she will visit with an eight-year-old child Tong Tong, who suffer from brain failure, and give the latter some rehabilitation7 training.

 

Last April, Shanghai municipal government announced that it would give individual trainings to some 804 children who suffered heavily from physical disabilities. This might be the last group of children that were not covered by the country's compulsory education system.

 
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1 wards 90fafe3a7d04ee1c17239fa2d768f8fc     
区( ward的名词复数 )； 病房； 受监护的未成年者； 被人照顾或控制的状态
参考例句：
  • This hospital has 20 medical [surgical] wards. 这所医院有 20 个内科[外科]病房。
  • It was a big constituency divided into three wards. 这是一个大选区，下设三个分区。
2 appendicitis 4Nqz8     
n.阑尾炎，盲肠炎
参考例句：
  • He came down with appendicitis.他得了阑尾炎。
  • Acute appendicitis usually develops without relation to the ingestion of food.急性阑尾炎的发生通常与饮食无关。
3 compulsory 5pVzu     
n.强制的，必修的；规定的，义务的
参考例句：
  • Is English a compulsory subject?英语是必修课吗？
  • Compulsory schooling ends at sixteen.义务教育至16岁为止。
4 affiliated 78057fb733c9c93ffbdc5f0ed15ef458     
adj. 附属的, 有关连的
参考例句：
  • The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 这家医院附属于当地大学。
  • All affiliated members can vote. 所有隶属成员都有投票权。
5 chronic BO9zl     
adj.(疾病)长期未愈的，慢性的；极坏的
参考例句：
  • Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
  • Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。
6 retarded xjAzyy     
a.智力迟钝的，智力发育迟缓的
参考例句：
  • The progression of the disease can be retarded by early surgery. 早期手术可以抑制病情的发展。
  • He was so slow that many thought him mentally retarded. 他迟钝得很，许多人以为他智力低下。
7 rehabilitation 8Vcxv     
n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位
参考例句：
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

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