The government of Slovenia will make available online healthcare manuals intended to ease communication between medical staff and patients who do not speak Slovenian. The documentation uses pictograms accompanied by texts in seven languages. The material will be used as training material for healthcare professionals in the country.
The text in the training manual will be translated into Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French and Russian. The document will be made available online, and only 250 copies of the documents will be printed on paper.
The documentation is being created by two faculties of medicine and the faculty of arts at the University of Ljubljana, together with the National Institute for Public Health. The EUR 100,000 project is 75% financed by the European Fund for Asylum, Migration and Integration (AMIF), with the remainder paid for by Slovenia’s Interior Ministry.
The training material is intended to help integrate foreigners into society, the ministry explained in a statement.
Preparation for the project started in late 2015.