the Hospital Carlos III publishes a guide to communication for health in Haiti.

The document includes expressions in four languages.

Madrid, July 2010.- unit of Tropical Medicine and Traveler of the Hospital Carlos III has released a guide to communication for health professionals who will travel to Haiti in the holiday period to help assistance and reconstruction of the country. The document contains contains a number of terms that seek to follow the course to make history. The guide includes expressions in Spanish, Creole, English and French.

Hospital Carlos III through the section of Tropical Medicine and Traveler, belonging to the infectious diseases service, has published a guide to communication for health professionals who will travel to Haiti to help victims of the earthquake in January 2010. The guide includes terms and medical expression in four languages: Spanish, Creole, English and French.

Although initially there was the massive influx of volunteers to the area, necessary medical care and follow-up of victims and many aid workers will take the summer to do humanitarian work in Haiti. Therefore, to facilitate this work center has released this paper greeting expressions, some generalities with a series of chapters that try to follow the course when it comes to a patient’s medical history.

The guide begins with questions about the reason for the query, since when the symptom that you worried or upset, allergies and history happens. Then there is a section dedicated to the pain and terms referring to the anamnesis aircraft. Also includes a few pages devoted to indications to prescribe treatments and a small dictionary of medical terms.

This work can be found also a table with the most significant parts of the human body to help understand health and patient in a way faster and more graphic requesting the individual to bring in your body where it hurts or part bothers him or grips.

The authors of the book are the doctors Begoña Alario, Pablo Rivas, María Dolores Herrero and José Medrano. There Anna Gaitero photography and drawing by Marta Rivas. The document is available in the download of the Carlos III Hospital area.