JSMU students develop Pakistan’s first medical h...

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•   KARACHI:  Students of Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) have developed a medical history-taking handbook in seven Pakistani languages to help doctors communicate more effectively with patients and reduce language barriers during medical consultations.
• The handbook is designed to help medical students and young doctors ask relevant questions, understand patients’ symptoms and obtain accurate medical histories in their preferred languages.
• He said the initiative was intended to eliminate language barriers in medical environments, adding that patients could explain their pain more effectively when allowed to communicate in their own languages.

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KARACHI:  Students of Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU) have developed a medical history-taking handbook in seven Pakistani languages to help doctors communicate more effectively with patients and reduce language barriers during medical consultations.

The initiative aims to improve communication between healthcare professionals and patients in a country where linguistic diversity often creates challenges in hospitals, particularly when patients struggle to explain their symptoms in a language understood by medical staff.

Prepared under the Internal Medicine Interest Group of Sindh Medical College, the handbook was developed under the supervision of Principal Sindh Medical College Professor Dr Ambreen Usmani and Associate Professor of Pathology Dr Sadaf Razaq.

The resource covers seven languages commonly encountered in hospital wards and outpatient departments: English, Urdu, Sindhi, Pashto, Punjabi, Balochi and Saraiki.