Civil rights complaint submitted for inadequate translation services</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Civil rights complaint submitted for inadequate translation services"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Civil,rights,complaint,submitted,for,inadequate,translation,services"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">21-04-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Civil rights complaint submitted for inadequate translation services</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">New York, USA (New York Times): A civil rights complaint to be formally submitted today to the New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, contends that the lack of basic translation services at four New York City hospitals endangers their immigrant patients and violates state and federal law. <br>The complaint was compiled by a coalition of advocates for immigrants who spent two years surveying patients, monitoring area hospitals and pressing for the translation services required by laws against discrimination on the basis of national origin <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/21/nyregion/21translation.html " target="blank">www.nytimes.com/2005/04/21/nyregion/21translation.html </a></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show