Multicultural resources

The Townsville Hospital and Health Service is home to a wide range of cultural groups and individuals who identify with a variety of religions, racial backgrounds, ethnicity and languages.

The following recourses can help assist in understanding your health care.

Interpreter Services

• Informed consent, rights to an interpreter multicultural information
• Queensland Health Internet (Public site)

Multicultural service

• Centrelink Multicultural Service Officers
• Community Information Centre (CIC)
• Community Information Centre Community directory. Access to religions and philosophies, Multicultural Support services, health services etc
• Multicultural links
• North Queensland Hindu Community Inc
• Queensland program of assistance to survivors of torture and trauma (QPASTT)
• Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre (QTMHC)
• Refugee Health Network Queensland - (Access to translated resources, publication and resources for clinicians)
• Refugee Health Nurse
• Refugee and asylum health services
• Townsville Intercultural Centre (TIC)
• Townsville Multicultural support group (TMSG)

Resources - Cultural/religious profiles

• Bahai Centre
• Community profiles for health care providers
• Hindu patients
• Mater online refugee health resources
• Muslim patients
• Sikh patients
• Syrian refugee health profile

Translated resources

• COVID-19 - Information for multicultural communities
• Health translations directory
• Multicultural Health - translated child health information
• Queensland Health system - translated information
• Translated information about health care rights and safety
• Refugee Health Network Queensland

• Refugee Health Network Queensland videos