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Yes. No, they have to adapt.
Debate Score:6
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Hospitals need to adapt to ensure good communication with ethnic minority patients.

 

Partly due to globalisation, The Netherlands knows a lot of different ethnic minority groups. Some of them are fully integrated in the dutch society and some of them are still living their own culture and talking their own language. Especially in healthcare, culture -and languagebarriers are often recognized by care givers and it slows down the communication process. In Belgium, hospitals are already working with translators, interpreters and intercultural mediators to reduce these barriers and to make the communication process running more fluently. Research has shown that the usage of translators in combination with interpreters and intercultural mediators improves the quality of care. In The Netherlands however, we are still a little bit behind with these solutions. The question is: Is it really the responsibility of the hospitals to adapt or is it the responsibility of the ethnic minority patients to adapt completely?

Remember: The law states that every patient has the right to be treated equally. 

Yes.

Side Score: 3
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No, they have to adapt.

Side Score: 3
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It depends on the situation but I believe that hospitals should make sure that they are able to communicate with patients. Hospitals have a rule that they need to communicate effectively with every patient in an understanding way. Many ethnic minorities are trying to learn the language or have learnt the language from the country that they live in but they still are not able to communicate on a level that requires knowledge about academical subjects. Most people who speak the language of their country are also not able to understand everything.

Side: Yes.
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In the most ideal situation it should be possible to organize communication with every ethnic minority in the hospital; however, hospitals have translators available but not for every language. Perhaps in the future. This debat has too many pro's and contra's for making a choice betweën "Yes"and "No

Side: Yes.

A hospital should practice diversity. Demographics have changed all over the globe.

Side: Yes.
1 point

First of all, the voting options are confusing.

While having translators is a reasonable requirement, that should be the extent of it. Cultural sensitivity training and all that other bull crap that keeps liberals with worthless degrees employed is equally worthless. Countries should expect immigrants to assimilate. Although it is not an instant process, a country should not have to bend over backwards to accommodate. If a group of people has a history of refusing to assimilate, they should be banned from immigration. Immigration is not a global right.

Case and point you are probably referring to is the muslim community.

Side: No, they have to adapt.

how many langs are spoken throughout the world? do you really expect each hospital to have translator for each?

i do think its pretty fucked up that we humans arent on the same page yet as far as communication...but hey look around, do you really expect better?

the world is segregated for a reason...the sooner you learn that reason the better. youre looking for the wrong solution to the problem.

Side: No, they have to adapt.

I am a firm believer that if you do not know the language of a country well you have no business moving their in the first place. It is immigrants who need to adapt toe the country not the country to the immigrants, hospitals shouldn't have to waste money on employing translators.

Side: No, they have to adapt.