Spanish in Health
2025/06/01 Salaberria Udabe, Ruth - Zainketa intentsiboetan espezialista | Montes Lasarte, Aitor - Familia-medikua Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria
Osakidetza itself recognizes that “communication is one of the most important tools in healthcare activity, so to guarantee the quality of service it is essential to act in the official language that patients and users feel most comfortable and safe”.
To this end, among other things, Osakidetza offers the possibility of registering in which official languages of the Basque Country the relations are preferred, and has an identification symbol (an e) that allows you to easily see in which services and with which professionals the Basque language can be developed. Recently, it has been announced that the patient also intends to be identified by the same symbol.
This latest announcement has sparked controversy, but other measures related to language rights are often the subject of debate, such as the use of automatic translators or poor management of resources to guarantee rights.
Ruth Salaberria Udabe, an ICU specialist, and Aitor Montes Lasarte, a family doctor, have offered their perspective on these discussions.
Ruth Salaberria Udabe
Mother Language in Medicine
Links to Aitor Montes Lasarte
Of Death and Words
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