Healthcare clients we work with.
Each kind of client brings different documents and different readers.
- Pharmaceutical companies and CROs: trial protocols, case report forms, consent and patient leaflets.
- Hospitals and clinics: discharge instructions, patient records and consent forms for patients who do not read English.
- Public-health programmes and NGOs: campaigns in South Africa’s official languages, where plain wording matters.
- Individuals: medical reports and certificates for visas, insurance, treatment abroad or legal proceedings.
Healthcare materials we translate.
Handled by linguists with clinical, pharmaceutical or public-health backgrounds, for patient-facing, clinical and regulatory work.
- Patient information leaflets and informed consent
- Clinical trial protocols and case report forms
- Drug labels, package inserts, and IFUs
- Hospital and clinic documentation
- Public-health campaign materials
- Medical device manuals and regulatory submissions
Medical documents we translate.
Personal medical documents are usually needed for treatment abroad, insurance, employers or estate matters.
- Medical report translation: reports for treatment abroad, insurance and legal use.
- Medical certificate translation: certificates for visa applications, insurance and employers.
- Death certificate translation: estate administration, pensions and repatriation.
- Done as sworn translations where the authority requires it; otherwise a certified translation is usually accepted.
How we keep medical translation accurate.
Four safeguards apply to every medical file.
- Subject-matched linguists with clinical, pharmaceutical or public-health backgrounds.
- Second-linguist review: for patient-facing and regulatory material we recommend the edit or full proofread tier, so dosages, units and warnings are checked twice.
- Termbases and translation memory keep drug names, units and recurring phrases consistent.
- POPIA-aligned handling. Patient documents never go into a public AI engine.
Interpreting
Medical interpreting.
Some conversations need a person in the room, not a document. We also provide interpreting for consultations and appointments. See how this works in practice: Afrikaans medical interpreting in Pretoria.
Our standard
Accuracy in dosages, warnings and consent.
A mistranslated dosage, a softened side effect, an unclear consent form: healthcare translation errors carry real human cost. Our medical translators are trained to the standard the work demands.
Request a healthcare translation quote.
Send us the project details and we will match the work to a linguist with the right language pair and subject knowledge.