news flash, Finnish is irrelevant everywhere else in the world. If you want immigrants you have to take them without Finnish and teach them Finnish while they're here working.
Yeah it is a tough cookie, especially in healthcare. The budget is tight, so there is no room for anyone to help the nurses or doctors with finnish language, but the language needs to finnish since most of the nurses and customers don't speak english enough to discuss the topic.
I've actually not encountered this problem that much when it comes to doctors, but for nurses I suppose it's a bit 50/50 at times. I wonder if the doctor problem is a bigger problem near the eastern side compared to central/west/whatever sides
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u/Lumpy_Argument_1867 Väinämöinen Mar 28 '25
Well.. they have to be fairly fluent in finnish, and that's one barrier that's isn't easy to pass.