Oregon
The challenges indigenous interpreters face in Oregon
A invoice handed final yr required well being care suppliers to work with OHA-certified interpreters to ensure that sufferers to have correct translations. However advocates say this has excluded indigenous audio system from Central and South America.
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Oregon now requires well being care suppliers to work with OHA-certified interpreters to ensure that sufferers to have accessible, correct translations, after a invoice handed within the legislature final yr. However advocates say this new system has excluded Indigenous audio system of languages from locations like Mexico and Guatemala due to the certification necessities. Puma Tzoc is the coordinator for the Collective of Indigenous Interpreters of Oregon and a speaker of the Okay’iche’ language. Cam Coval is the chief director of Pueblo Unido PDX. They each be part of us now to share how this new state legislation has affected interpreters in Oregon and their hopes for the long run.
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