Medical translation: English → Serbian
This page covers medical documents in the combination English → Serbian. The direction matters: the terminology, the sentence length a reader expects and the way a diagnosis is phrased all change when you reverse it, so we treat each direction as its own service with its own translators and its own glossary.
It is also the language most often chosen as a neutral bridge, for instance when a report has to reach a specialist abroad who reads neither the source language nor the patient's own.
For the communities from the Western Balkans living in Switzerland this is one of the most requested combinations, typically for pension and disability files, treatment abroad and documents needed back home.
Cyrillic script brings its own questions: which spelling of a personal name goes on the certificate, and how a name already latinised in a passport should be handled. We follow the passport spelling unless you tell us otherwise.
Everything is delivered with a certificate of accuracy, which is what a hospital admissions office, an insurer or a foreign registration body will look for. If the file has to be filed abroad, we add notarisation and the apostille of the cantonal chancellery, and we can arrange embassy or consulate legalisation for countries outside the Hague Convention.
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How an order works
Send the document
A phone photo is enough to start. Attach the file to the form, by email or on WhatsApp.
Receive a fixed quote
Within 60 minutes on working days: price, deadline and the exact form of certification required.
Translation and revision
A subject specialist translates, a second linguist revises, and terminology is checked against your earlier files.
Certification and delivery
You receive a signed PDF the same day and, where needed, the stamped paper original plus apostille or embassy legalisation by post.
Frequently asked questions
Will a Swiss authority accept your translation?
Yes. Every certified translation is bound to a copy of the source document and carries our stamp, the translator's signature and a declaration of completeness and accuracy. Switzerland has no single national register of sworn translators, so authorities look at the certification and, where the document travels abroad, at the notarisation and apostille. Tell us which office will receive the file and we will apply the exact form it requires.
How much does a medical translation cost?
Price depends on word count, language combination, the level of specialisation and whether certification, notarisation or an apostille is needed. A one-page medical certificate is a small fixed fee; a fifty-page oncology file is quoted per word. Send the document and you get one figure that includes certification and postage, valid for thirty days.
Do you handle the apostille yourselves?
Yes. After certification we take the file to a notary, then to the state chancellery of the canton concerned for the apostille under the 1961 Hague Convention. If the destination country is not a party to that convention, the document continues to the Federal Chancellery, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and then the relevant embassy or consulate. You approve the route and the fees before we begin.