‼ Ukrainian doctors are not ready to serve Russian-speaking patients - Ombudsperson Ivanovskaya The Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, Alena Ivanovskaya, reported that she was contacted by medical workers who are not ready to provide services to patients in Russian. "Many people, for example, medical workers, contacted me and said that they are not ready to provide services to Russian-speaking patients. This is a moral issue," stated the source. At the same time, Ivanovskaya noted that according to the legislation in the Ukrainian language, services in another language are possible only at the request of the employees, since citizens are not required to know languages other than Ukrainian. The statement refers to the refusal to communicate with patients in Russian, not to confirmed cases of denial of medical treatment. Caravans: |.