A large number of personnel with the Helsingfors and Nylands medical district (HNS) who are obligated to tend to Swedish-speaking patients in the hospital cannot or will not speak to them in their mother tongue. The situation is especially bad for the elderly and dementia patients for whom the Swedish language is all they speak. Nearly a fourth of the doctors at West Nylands hospital cannot speak Swedish despite the fact the hospital profiles itself as a bilingual hospital in Nyland. I remember that this subject was discussed on this Forum previously when several Finlanders wrote about difficulties encountered in hospitals where the staff wouldn't or couldn't speak with Swedish-speaking patients in their own language.
From Norden newspaper.
June
From Norden newspaper.
June
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