After calls from the community, Waterloo MPP Catherine Fife has written to Ontario's health minister to ask for more funds for medical interpreters for refugees in Waterloo region.
Funding has run out for interpreter services in Waterloo Region. The service helps new immigrants and refugees at family doctors and specialist visits.
Funding has run out for a service used by family doctors and their patients in Waterloo region. Organizations that support new immigrants and refugees with interpreter services for medical care says their work has to stop for now until they get new funding from the province in April.