The amount of COVID-19 information can be overwhelming at times, and even more so if English is a second language. The Alberta International Medical Graduates Association (AIMGA) is looking to solve this problem by holding COVID-19 information sessions in six different languages.
Deidre Lake, executive director of AIMGA, said the group’s roster of multilingual health professionals wanted to help inform as many Albertans as possible. “We were looking for ways to get involved and to support the community,” said Lake. “We decided to reach out to communities to give information because there was a lot of confusing messages around COVID-19.” AIMGA has developed videos in Arabic, Malayalam, Punjabi, Spanish, Tagalog and Tigrinya.