Mental health sector asks for money for interpreters during therapy: "Lack of money leads to desperate situations"
Mental health sector asks for money for interpreters during therapy: "Lack of money leads to desperate situations" The mental health sector asks the government to intervene financially in the costs of social interpreters during therapy. The CGG Flemish Brabant and the Flemish Association of Clinical Psychologists (VVKP) write this in a press release. The costs of a social interpreter are high and are in addition to the costs of the consultation. "People cannot afford this, the care is postponed or canceled at all, which leads to desperate situations," says Anne Roekens, director of the CGG Flemish Brabant. "In Belgium I was told that I had lung cancer," says Barbara Gluszek, a Polish woman from Leuven. She moved to our country a few years ago for love and worked here as a cleaning lady. In Poland, she had previously been diagnosed with breast cancer . "After a mastectomy, that was under control." “Being diagnosed with cancer again was very ...