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‼️ RUSSIAN-SPEAKING PATIENT — NOT A PATIENT? THE LANGUAGE OMBUDSWOMAN’S NEW “MORAL STANDARDS”
The Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, Olena Ivanovska, publicly said that medical workers have been contacting her saying they are not willing to provide services to Russian-speaking patients.
And instead of a clear response that refusing medical care because of a patient’s language is unacceptable — there were talks about a doctor’s right not to switch to another language and about questions of morality.
Excuse me, since when did the language a person speaks to a doctor become a criterion for their right to medical care?
Millions of citizens in Ukraine use Russian in everyday life. They pay taxes, defend the state, and have the same constitutional rights as all other Ukrainians.
Protecting the state language must not become a justification for discriminating against citizens on the basis of language. Especially when it comes to medicine, where the cost of refusing help can be someone’s health or life.
I have appealed to the Office of the Prosecutor General requesting a legal assessment of Olena Ivanovska’s public statements for possible violation of equality of citizens on the basis of language, as provided for by Article 161 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
🧐Ms. Ivanovska, are you protecting the state language or do you consider it acceptable to divide Ukrainians into those who should be helped and those who can be refused because of their language?
⁉️Where, then, is the boundary between protecting the state language and discriminating against your own citizens? Under the banners of language protection, can any violation of their rights already be justified?
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