Accepting foreign patients

Gifu University Hospital strives to provide an environment in which international patients can enjoy advanced medical care. Our center facilitates interaction among various units in our hospital to better treat international patients and their families.

Multilingual support for international patients including use of Mediphone

Service

Our hospital offers the medical interpreter service "Mediphone" to provide medical interpretation for numerous languages including Portuguese, Persian and Tagalog as well as English and Chinese. Bulletins and forms are available in both Japanese and English, including health-related questionnaires, medical certificates and referral letters.

Statistics

Mediphone use between , Jan 2021 and Dec, 2023

Number of Mediphone use
Month202120222023
January93710
February14338
March81020
April131234
May102135
June141918
July231918
August142522
September372423
October292517
November20159
December371125
Total228251239
Number of Mediphone use
Language
Language202120222023
English775376
Chinese484634
Cantonese003
Spanish43470
Vietnamese2517
Portuguese211850
Indonesian41921
Tagalog23323
Myanmar0120
Arabic0101
French529
Russian057
Bengali042
Nepali012
Thai202
Turkish001
Mongolian001
Persian000
Urdu100
Total228251239
Language