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Waitakere Hospital

Support Services

Interpreting Services

Waitemata Auckland Translation and Interpreting Service (WATIS) is a division of Waitemata DHB Asian Health Support Service.

WATIS provides interpreting and translation services 24 hours a day, seven days a week for many languages, including sign language.

It may take longer to arrange an interpreter if there is a gender preference or it is for an uncommon language for the geographical area.

The languages available for interpreting/translation are:

Algerian, Arabic, Armenian, Bangla (Bengali), Belorussian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian (Khmer), Chinese (inlcuding Cantonese, Chiu Chow, Foochow, Hakka, Hokkien, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Teochew), Cook Island Maori (Rarotongan), Croatian, Czech, Dari (Afghani), Dutch, Ethiopian (Amharic), Farsi (Iranian, Persian), Fijian Hindi, Filipino, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Iraqine, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Kuwaiti, Lao, Lebanese, Macedonian, Malay, Maori, Niuean, Pampango, Polish, Portugese, Punjabi, Pushtu, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Sign Language, Sinhalese, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tahitian, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tokelau, Tongan, Turkish, Tuvaluan, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yugoslavian.

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