00:00International health care support remains crucial for disaster relief across Venezuela.
00:05In Guarenas, Miranda State, a specialized medical team from Barbados,
00:09is working alongside health personnel at a field hospital to treat survivors from both Miranda and La Guaira.
00:16For a look at how cross-cultural cooperation and language interpreters are bridging the gap to save lives,
00:22we go to our correspondent, Belinda Santos, with her report.
00:28Hello, estudios. We're coming to you from Guarenas, particularly from the field hospital
00:33that is being led here by the Barbados crew that is working in the assistance after the twin earthquakes of
00:40June 24th.
00:41And we're here with a very special person in order to guarantee the assistance and the work,
00:48the cooperation between Venezuelan and Barbadian teams.
00:51She is Tatiana, one of the interpreters here.
00:53Thank you, Tatiana, for offering your time and just wanted to ask you, how has this experience been?
01:00It's a pleasure to be here with you guys.
01:02This experience has been nothing more than nourishing.
01:05I have learned so much, not only as an interpreter, but as a person.
01:09Being able to work along with the Barbadian medical team, the Venezuelan medical team,
01:13it has been completely nourishing and a wonderful experience, really.
01:17In your role as an interpreter, having to translate back and forth in the midst of a very difficult situation
01:26for Venezuelans as well,
01:28what have you gathered in terms of what is the key aspect of doing a good translation,
01:36needing to support what they need at that moment and also delivering the correct information for the medical team?
01:43So I do understand this role is like very important.
01:47I have tried to look at myself kind of as an extension of both parties because it's up to me
01:53for this person to get their message across
01:55and this person to get their message across.
01:56So I try to take it very seriously and the role of interpreters has been here extremely important.
02:04So one of the things that a lot of the, well, part of the medical crew and also the assistants
02:10have told us
02:11is that they are learning a lot from each other.
02:13What have you learned, Tatiana, from the different cultures here that are at play at this camp?
02:19Okay, I would say the main thing since I'm working in a hospital is that medical staff,
02:24their first priority is always the patient.
02:27You know, you might think, well, this is obvious, but it hasn't always been like that.
02:30What I've learned that Venezuelan medical staff and Barbados medical staff have in common
02:34is that they share an enormous, an enormous love for their patients.
02:39So that is something I have taken from them and I'm going to keep forever.
02:44Thank you so much for this time and for the testimony that really allows us to understand
02:48what is happening here in the midst of a complex moment with so much solidarity.
02:53Thank you, Tatiana.
02:54You're welcome. Thank you.
02:54So a little bit of what is happening here in the field hospital.
02:58Again, we're in Guarenas.
02:59Just to recall that this field hospital is bringing assistance to those most affected by the double earthquake.
03:07Here in Guarenas, also people from La Guayra, the most affected state,
03:11are coming here and being able to perform their lab testing, for example, x-rays
03:16and other terms of the assistance of medical health care that is so much needed after an incident
03:24like the one Venezuela has lived through and continues to live through in terms of the recovery process.
03:30I go back to you now.
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