Medical Interpreting Services for Refugees in Canada: Current State of Practice and Considerations in Promoting this Essential Human Right for All.

We cannot treat people from Hindustani-speaking (Hindi/Urdu) South Asia; Spanish-speaking people from Central America, the Andes, Spain and the Southern Cone of South America; nor Arabic-speaking people from the MENA (Middle East and North African people from Morocco, to Egypt, to Sudan, the Levant and the Arabian peninsula) regions as cultural monoliths, and there may be significant historical class, racial and/or religious intricacies that impact how patients and interpreters interact, even if from the same region speaking the same language [ 108 ].

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