Sanitas refuses emergency admission because medical report was in Catalan

The report ends up being translated into Spanish five hours later.
Health insurer Sanitas refused a woman hospital admission last week. She required immediate medical attention for an infection. The reason for the refusal was that the medical report was written in Catalan.

According to the programme 8 al Dia on local channel 8TV, the incident occurred at the Quirón Hospital in Barcelona, where the physicians ordered admission of the patient at 7.19 pm. Five hours later, Sanitas refused admission adducing linguistic reasons.

The decision was made after the patient had been waiting five hours and the infection had already progressed. Finally, the doctor had to leave his duties in the Emergency Department to translate the report and request the hospital admission in Spanish.

Source: Vilaweb