Polish man’s death raised to highlight language difficulties

A POLISH man travelled from Dublin to his native country where he suffered a heart attack — despite Irish nurses telling him hours earlier that he was too sick to travel.

The 48-year-old’s death was raised at the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) Conference by a Dublin nurse who was trying to highlight the difficulties being experienced by nursing staff when communicating with non-English speakers. The man had specifically asked could he return to Poland that day and the nurses had told him that it wasn’t advisable.

A translator had been called by nurses to speak with the man who had just undergone an angiogram procedure.