Excerpt from: Medical Translation and Interpretation
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| June 17, 2008 | | Everyone knows that there's a need for interpreters in the medical field, and that interpreters can be useful when travelling in certain parts of the world where little English is spoken. With the rise in “medical tourism,�? these two needs have merge | they `sometimes have more problems communicating with patients from neighbouring states ?than with patients from abroad.' “Hospitals in India are increasingly taking on foreign language translators to meet the needs of the growing number of medical tourists opting for treatment in the country…
However, around 90 per cent of patients attending Indian hospitals tend to understand English and Ravi Ramalingam, managing director of KKRENT Hospital, told the Hindu [an Indian newspaper] that they ‘sometimes have more problems communicating with patients from neighbouring states …than with patients from abroad.’
India has become one of the world's leading medical tourism destinations thanks to its state-of-the-art facilities and highly skilled medical personnel, many of whom have trained and worked in the UK.” (Extract from “Medical Tourism Means Demand for Translators,” Treatment Abroad) From business conferences to courtroom cases to hospital wards, interpreters work in varied venues all over the world. At Language Translation Inc. in San Diego, we offer top-notch language translation and interpretation, and also now offer telephonic interpreting. “Let us show you how good translation should be.” Betty Carlson | | |
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