Doctors of the World are really pleased to be able to share with you the Coronavirus (Covid 19) advice for patients in 43 languages, which were produced in partnership with the British Red Cross, Migrant Help and Clear Voice: Gujarati and Italian have now been added to other key langauages including: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dari, English, Farsi, French, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Kurdish Sorani, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sindhi, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Tigrinya, Turkish, Urdu. New this week are Kiswahili, Krio, Traditional Chinese and Wolof.
Please find them here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=193qQN9l04Dvf0N9L5zeWTiXK_DRbrAxg
The guidance is based on the government’s updated advice and health information. We really hope it will help to ensure this important guidance reaches migrant and asylum-seeking communities in the UK.
We would be happy if you could please share these with your patients, service users and your networks widely so that we reach all communities who would like this crucial information in their own language.
If you know someone who would find emails on this subject useful, then please do forward this to them. They can subscribe by sending an email to: yciftci@doctorsoftheworld.org.uk with the word ‘subscribe’ in the subject line.
And a big thank you to Clear Voice for providing translation services quickly and pro-bono!
Best wishes
Yusuf
Dr Yusuf Ciftci
Policy and Advocacy Officer
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