Vulnerable Miss Out on Healthcare in Sweden
Language difficulties often affect the quality of health care people receive in Sweden.
Doctors’ surgeries say the lack of interpreters for patients who can’t speak Swedish, leave the most vulnerable in society without treatment.
One example of this was revealed by a study from the Swedish Cancer Society.
They found that a quarter of women living in Sweden’s larger towns do not turn up for their mammography appointments. In comparison nine in ten women from smaller communities showed up to theirs.
A possible reason is believed to be that the cards calling women to their x-ray examinations are in Swedish.
The Society plan to look further into the matter by investigating the number and type of women who miss their mammography examinations.
Whilst LangCommLive understands the issues faced in Sweden, our "on demand" telephone interpreting service interprets from and to English. Our service does not extend, for example, from Swedish to French.
http://www.langcommlive.com/
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