The document, presented by the Legislative Commission on Culture, Education, Science, and Technology, imposes the study of both languages because they are essential so that graduates of different professions can communicate, especially doctors, the newspaper added.

The parliamentarians appreciated arguments such as that of Senator Hermelinda Alvarenga, who regretted that some professionals are limited in their work because they do not know the Guarani language.

The legislator cited the specific case of doctors who are not fluent in this native language and recalled the case of a woman who took her sick child to a hospital and left without knowing the child’s diagnosis because the doctor only spoke Spanish.

Paraguay celebrates Guarani Language Day on August 25. The National Constitution declared the Guarani language as the national language of the Republic on that date in 1967, along with Spanish.

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