Haitian Medical Records Translation
Haitian medical records translation to English for a US doctor taking over your care, a humanitarian parole request for treatment, an injury or disability claim, or a civil surgeon. Haitian hospitals and clinics write in French, and the translator also reads the Creole that turns up in a patient's own account of symptoms.
- Up to 250 words per page
- $25 per page
- Standard turnaround
- From 24 hours
- Certificate of accuracy
- Signed & stamped
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Written for Haitian Creole medical records records
What a Haitian medical file looks like
Most Haitian medical paperwork is a few loose sheets rather than a bound chart, and each sheet has its own title.
Certificat médical first, then the rest
The document most patients hold is a certificat médical: a one-page letter on the hospital's or the doctor's letterhead giving the diagnosis, the treatment and how long the patient was unfit, signed and stamped. Behind it may sit a fiche d'admission, a résumé de sortie after a hospital stay, an ordonnance for medicines and résultats de laboratoire or d'imagerie. We translate each sheet under its own heading and keep the hospital's name as written, whether it is the Hôpital de l'Université d'État d'Haïti, Bernard Mevs, the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais or a clinic in Cap-Haïtien.
French on the page, Creole in the history
Doctors and nurses write in French with the usual shorthand: ATCD for antécédents, TA for tension artérielle, FC for fréquence cardiaque. The patient's own words, when a nurse writes them down, are often Creole: tèt fè mal, vant fè mal, fyèv. The translation renders both and does not turn a Creole complaint into a French diagnosis the doctor never made.
For parole, injury and disability files
A humanitarian parole request on medical grounds needs the Haitian doctor's letter saying what the condition is and why it cannot be treated in Haiti, and USCIS reads that letter in English with a certification. Insurers and disability examiners want dates, doses and units kept exactly. Haitian prescriptions give doses in metric and lab reports use the lab's own units, and the translation keeps those rather than converting, with the original figure beside anything that could be misread.
Who is asking for your Haitian Creole medical records translation?
The translation is the same. What changes is whether the recipient wants anything added to it.
Doctors and hospitals
A new physician needs your diagnoses, medications and reports in English before the first visit. Each report is translated in full and certified, so it can go into your chart as it is.
Insurers
Health, travel and disability insurers ask for the medical report and the itemized bill in English, translated completely and certified, before they pay a claim for care received abroad.
ECFMG
ECFMG accepts a word-for-word translation on a translation service's letterhead, signed by the translator with a certification statement. Summaries and extracts are refused. Our certified translations follow that format.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Haitian Creole medical records.
Send the pages a doctor would read
The discharge letter, the current medication list and the reports it relies on cover most visits. A full hospital file can run to hundreds of pages, so start with those and add the rest if the recipient asks.
Letterhead, stamps and signatures count
The hospital header, the doctor's stamp and the registration number on a prescription identify who wrote the record. Scan each page whole, including forms and the back of any page with a stamp.
Tell us who will read it
A physician needs the clinical pages, an insurer the diagnosis and the itemized bill, ECFMG a word-for-word translation of the entire document. Say which in the order notes, with the patient's name as the passport spells it.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Haitian Creole medical records translation
One price per page covers the translation and its certification. A page is up to 250 words, and the quote tells you the page count before you pay.
Everything on the medical records is translated, including stamps, seals and handwritten notes. Tell us the English spelling you use for each name when you order.
Certified Translation
Word-for-word translation with a certificate of accuracy for official use.
$25
USD / page
up to 250 words per page
Included
- Signed & stamped certification of translation accuracy
- Certified by a professional translator
- Digital delivery via PDF
- Review and approve final translation
- 100% Guaranteed Acceptance
- Standard turnaround starting at 24 hours
Optional services
- Expedited turnaround
- Priority handling when your deadline is shorter than the standard turnaround.
- By deadline
- Notarization
- A notary public signs and stamps the certification statement.
- $20 per order
- Physical copy
- A wet-ink original of your translation, mailed by express courier.
- $35 per order
- Apostille
- Authenticates the notary’s signature and seal for use in Hague Convention countries.
- $180 per document
What the certificate of accuracy states
Your translation arrives with a Certification of Translation Accuracy issued by ImmiTranslate. It is the page the receiving organization checks first.
- The translation is complete and accurate.
- The document title and the language pair.
- The translator is competent in both languages.
- A signature and the ImmiTranslate certification stamp.
- Our American Translators Association corporate membership.
Our translation process
Our goal is to make the translation process as simple as possible for you. Our service is streamlined specifically for documents of this nature.
Haitian Creole Medical Records FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- Are Haitian medical records ever written in Haitian Creole?
- Rarely the whole record. Staff trained in Haiti chart in French, and lab analyzers print in French or English. Creole appears in quoted symptoms, in counselling notes at HIV and TB programmes such as GHESKIO, and in patient education sheets stapled to the file. Everything on the page is translated whichever language it is in, and the certification covers the whole document.
- The doctor's letter is handwritten. Can you read it?
- Usually, and we say so when we cannot. Haitian certificats médicaux are often written by hand on letterhead with the stamp pressed over the signature. Photograph the page flat, in daylight, with the letterhead and the stamp in frame. The translator reads the hand and marks a word illegible rather than guessing at a drug name or a dose.
- Do I need the whole hospital file translated, or only the certificat médical?
- It depends on the reader. A US doctor or a parole request usually needs the certificat médical and the recent test results. A disability examiner or an insurer handling an injury claim wants the full file, admission to discharge, because it checks dates and treatment against the claim. Ask what the recipient lists, send those pages, and we quote the count before you pay.
- How much does a certified translation cost?
- Certified translation is $25 per page, with a page counted as up to 250 words. Notarization, a mailed physical copy and an apostille are optional and priced separately.
- How long does a certified translation take?
- Standard turnaround starts at 24 hours and depends on the length and language of your documents. If you have a deadline, include it in your quote request.
Other Haitian Creole documents we translate
Medical records translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's medical records records.
Sending it with an application? Read the USCIS translation requirements, Insurance claim translations before you order.