Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community

Soláthar Seirbhísí Sláinte: Plé.

Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald:

We provided the video translations for clinicians to use. The translation was delivered by a Russian or French doctor and then we advertised to our GP colleagues through the Irish College of General Practitioners and told them to look at it. The main driver for the initiative, called "my health, my language", came from GPs and advocates in the community who wanted better messaging for migrant communities. GPs and clinicians were encouraged to go to this video and show it and share it on WhatsApp. They were told that this was what they should tell their patients. That was the freagra.

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