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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Need to know - the native language in hospital


A Mexican native who does not speak Spanish leaves the nurse and gives birth on the lawn, if I understand correctly. And it's not the first time this or something similar has happened.
Possible solutions:
1 Send children to bilingual schools.  At primary level mother and child or parents and child should learn a second or the main national language together.
2 Get teachers of bilingual classes to ask pupils to translate sentences about real problems. Donate hospitals, doctors and police and fire stations a series of pages with translations of local languages. Nurses and patients can point to the questions and answers.
3 Give any expectant mother access to a translator who will supply a page of fAQ.
4 Have volunteer translators at the end of a phone.

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