If patients and doctors speak different languages, communication failures can lead to medical errors and adverse events.
To help facilitate patients, our nursing students Saher Makhani and Awais Rahman from the graduating class 2019, along with their teammates from the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Medical College, have come up with an amazing idea: a web-based service available 24/7 across Pakistan to help health providers overcome the language barrier.
“Multilingual Health aims to provide medical interpreters for eight of the most-spoken regional languages in Pakistan,” says Saher. “We are still developing the concept and plan to test it in a small number of hospitals to assess the difference it can make.”
“Also while we have a great idea, we are often unsure of how to execute it. But the force that is helping us making it all possible is our mentor Rafeh Ahmed,” says Awais. “He has stood beside us and brought out the best in us in facing challenges.”
A round of applause for our students Saher Makhani, Awais Rahman, Komal Rahim, Asma Merchant, Asliha Shah and their mentor Rafeh Ahmed.
If patients and doctors speak different languages, communication failures can lead to medical errors and adverse events.
To help facilitate patients, our nursing students Saher Makhani and Awais Rahman from the graduating class 2019, along with their teammates from the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Medical College, have come up with an amazing idea: a web-based service available 24/7 across Pakistan to help health providers overcome the language barrier.
“Multilingual Health aims to provide medical interpreters for eight of the most-spoken regional languages in Pakistan,” says Saher. “We are still developing the concept and plan to test it in a small number of hospitals to assess the difference it can make.”
“Also while we have a great idea, we are often unsure of how to execute it. But the force that is helping us making it all possible is our mentor Rafeh Ahmed,” says Awais. “He has stood beside us and brought out the best in us in facing challenges.”
A round of applause for our students Saher Makhani, Awais Rahman, Komal Rahim, Asma Merchant, Asliha Shah and their mentor Rafeh Ahmed.