Many Indigenous language-speaking immigrants have long faced this challenge when seeking health care in America, but the COVID-19 pandemic drew renewed attention to their plight
In November 2020, when Eulogia Romero was hospitalized with a severe COVID-19 infection, she feared the virus would kill her. During her 15-day stay in a Los Angeles hospital, she remembers, she felt disoriented and confused. Her family couldn’t visit her, and the 69-year-old rarely spoke to them over the phone because she was too weak, and on some days, barely conscious.
“These are the same issues we were facing before the pandemic, and they were intensified during COVID because more Indigenous people were in the hospital,” says Odilia Romero, Eulogia Romero's daughter and co-founder and executive director of Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo, a nonprofit that works with Indigenous communities in Los Angeles. “But it continues, because there is a lack of acknowledgment of our existence and our language.
It was a historic moment, says Endangered Language Alliance co-founder, Daniel Kaufman. Indigenous people from Latin America and their overlooked linguistic challenges were recognized.Although hospitals receiving certain federal funds—like Medicaid or CHIP—are required to provide an interpreter for patients, regardless of language, that often doesn’t happen for people like Romero, who are frequently unaware they are entitled to an interpreter who speaks their language.
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