https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-65780120
1st June 2023
A Chinese man in Scotland's main immigration centre probably suffered at least two heart attacks in custody before he died, a sheriff has ruled.
[…] He criticised the medical treatment given to the detainee.
And he described the official approach to the use of interpreters as "vague, haphazard and ambiguous" for non-English speakers. […]
His language was recorded as Cantonese but he was a Taishanese speaker, with some understanding of Cantonese. It was also recorded that Mr Huang spoke Mandarin but this was not true.
The day before he died he spoke to nurses through an interpreter - a fellow Chinese detainee - who was not a Taishanese speaker.
He was prescribed Peptac, a peppermint-flavoured remedy for indigestion.
Sheriff Dunipace said this was probably a "cardiac event".
Mr Huang died the following day, having never been taken to hospital.
A post mortem examination discovered "significant" heart disease and that he had probably suffered a heart attack two weeks before his death and again the day before he died.
Dr Stephen Hearns, a consultant in emergency medicine, told the inquiry that, had Mr Huang been taken to hospital, the chances of him dying would have been "significantly reduced”. […]
Sheriff Dunipace made a series of recommendations including that record-keeping is improved, and about access to GPs and translation services when dealing with detainees who are unable to speak English. […]
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